Mark D. Hughes (ISPI)

Institute for the Study of Privacy Issues (ISPI), PrivacyNews.com, ISPIClips.com

Location: British Columbia, Canada
Industry: Information Technology and Services

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Mark D. Hughes (ISPI)'s Overview

Current

Executive Director at Institute for the Study of Privacy Issues (ISPI) PrivacyNews.com

Past

Owner at Ama-gi Dolphin Offshore Financial Research
Owner at Ama-gi Dolphin Distribution
Academic Coordinator at Ludwig von Mises Institute - Lawrence Fertig Student Center

Education

George Mason University
University of Victoria

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Connections

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Executive Director

Institute for the Study of Privacy Issues (ISPI) PrivacyNews.com

Information Technology and Services industry

January 1997 – Present (15 years 5 months)

The Institute for the Study of Privacy Issues (ISPI) promotes interdisciplinary research and reporting on personal, financial, and electronic privacy so as to help ordinary people understand the degree of privacy they have with respect to government, industry and each other.

ISPI is a tiny--member funded--organization. Its independent and doesn't accept government funding.

In 1997 I founded ISPI in response to two concerns:

1) The world-wide explosive growth of interconnected data-base technology, and;

2) The widespread use of this technology by government, business and ordinary people to snoop into the private lives and finances of unsuspecting citizens.

For more than 15 years ISPI has been the leading distributor of news and information on Identity, surveillance and privacy issues by way of its daily news service - ISPI Clips.

ISPI Clips is a unique privacy-news service. It’s NOT simply a digest of condensed stories that have been edited and redacted down to a smattering of one paragraph blurbs. ISPI Clips is the real thing. It's like getting a newspaper with as many as 35 COMPLETE privacy-related articles delivered directly to your e-mail doorstep every weekday.

Articles selected for ISPI Clips are timely (often breaking news) and of vital interest to privacy advocates, lawyers, corporate privacy officers, government privacy commissioners/directors and IT managers.

In his exhaustive review of the top privacy-information services, Jay Cline, columnist and president of Minnesota Privacy Consultants, ranks ISPI Clips as "...the most comprehensive daily privacy news-clipping service." http://tinyurl.com/2c9oe6x

ISPI Clips focus is privacy news from the USA, Canada, the UK and Europe. News from Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, India and South Africa is also covered. Coverage of privacy news from Asia, and Latin America continues to grow.

Try ISPI Clips for 3 weeks with absolutely no obligation; send your name, email & request to Mark@PrivacyNews.com

Owner

Ama-gi Dolphin Offshore Financial Research

1995 – 1997 (2 years)

Independent and unbiased research and reporting on publications and businesses dealing with privacy, asset protection, and financial planning through offshore banking centers.

Owner

Ama-gi Dolphin Distribution

1991 – 1996 (5 years)

Direct and network-retail marketing of household environmental products, preschool educational tools and consumer electronics.

Academic Coordinator

Ludwig von Mises Institute - Lawrence Fertig Student Center

1986 – 1989 (3 years)

LFSC was the Fairfax, Virginia (George Mason University) satellite office of the Ludwig von Mises Institute. Functioned as a student resource center and conference location for the advancement of "Misesian" Austrian Economics in Northern Virginia.

http://mises.org/misestributes/Fertig.asp

George Mason University

MA, Economics

1986 – 1989

Emphases on the Causal-Realist or "Austrian" School of Economics and Public Choice Theory.

My particular fields of inquiry were:

1) The political economy of charity, philanthropy and volunteerism;

2) The history of thought in economics and religion, and;

3) The impact of the surveillance state on financial privacy and property rights.

University of Victoria

BA, Economics, Geography

1981 – 1986

Activities and Societies: . Society of Geography Students (SOGS) - President Geography Department Chairman Search Committee - Student Rep Libertarian Students' Association (LSA) - President & Founder The Galt: LSA Independent Student Newspaper - Editor & Publisher

Interests:

Hiking with Gem: an Airedale/Boarder Collie girl rescued from the pound: woodworking & carving, carpentry, landscaping, historical fiction. -- Austrian School of Economics & Praxeology: Carl Menger, Ludwig von Mises, Murray N. Rothbard -- Economics of eleemosynary institutions: alms folk, charity, philanthropy and volunteerism -- Archaeology: especially the use of Mises's praxeological method to explain the origins of cities -- 18th, 19th & early 20th Cent Individualist Anarchists: William Godwin, Henry David Thoreau, Lysander Spooner, Josiah Warren, William Batchelder Greene, Ezra & Angela Heywood, Benjamin Tucker, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Herbert Spencer, Anselme Bellegarrigue, Gustave de Molinari, Franz Oppenheimer, Voltairine de Cleyre, Maria Lacerda de Moura, Rose Wilder Lane, Albert Jay Nock, H. L. Mencken -- Modern Private-Property Anarchists: Floyd A. Harper, Murray Rothbard, Robert LeFevre, Karl Hess, Walter Block, Sheldon Richman, Wendy McElroy

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