Tech-thinkers stand on guard for all of us

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Business Edge
By Tom Keenan - Business Edge
Published: 05/18/2007 - Vol. 7, No. 10

In a panel on emerging privacy issues, several "canaries in the coal mine" told their stories to alert us to privacy issues that are coming.

Mara (formerly Mark) Kieseling is executive director of the Washington, D.C.-based National Center for Transgender Equity. At airport security, should Kieseling be frisked by a man or a woman?

"They haven't even thought about us, though the (U.S. Transportation Security Administration) has a policy on 'helper monkeys,' which are like seeing-eye dogs," said Kieseling. "So we know where we rank."