Friday, April 19th Morning Keynote

ABSTRACT

Jackie Speier (D-San Mateo/San Francisco) was elected to the 8th Senate District on November 3, 1998 with 79.2% of the vote. The district includes the western half of San Francisco and northern San Mateo County.

Speier first served in the State Legislature as a member of the State Assembly, 1986-1996, where two Republican governors signed 181 of her bills into law. The San Jose Mercury News reported in 1996, that "no one comes close to Speier's remarkable record of getting substantive legislation signed into law." Her legislative success rate was rated "Ruthian" by the Los Angeles Times.

As chair of the Assembly's Consumer Protection Committee for five years, she wrote pro-consumer laws to protect Californians from misleading internet transactions, travel fraud, telemarketing scams, unfair funeral and cremation practices, illegal stock transactions, inaccurate credit reports, gender discrimination in pricing of services, and the resale of lemon vehicles.

Index Terms

• Security and privacy

  • Human and societal aspects of security and privacy

• Social and professional topics

  • Computing / technology policy

    • Privacy policies

  • Professional topics

    • History of computing

      • Historical people

      • History of software