Mary J. Culnan is the Slade Professor of Management and Information Technology at Bentley College in Waltham, Massachusetts, USA. Her current research interests include privacy, promoting security on home computers, and online communities. She is the author of more than 90 articles including publications in MIS Quarterly, Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, The Information Society, Management Science, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. Professor Culnan has testified before the US Congress, the Massachusetts House and Senate, and other government agencies on a range of privacy issues. Currently, she serves as a member of the Government Accountability Office's Executive Council on Information Management and Technology. She also served as a Commissioner on the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection. She is the author of the 1999 Georgetown Internet Privacy Policy Survey, which the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) used to make recommendations to Congress, and she served on the FTC's Advisory Committee on Online Access and Security. BusinessWeek's "e.biz" Web site profiled her as a "Mover & Shaker." She holds a Ph.D. in management from UCLA. She can be reached at mculnan at bentley.edu.