Lillie Coney
Associate Director
Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)

Lillie Coney is Associate Director with the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) in Washington, DC. She is the Public Policy Coordinator for the National Committee for Voting Integrity (NCVI), and has testified before the Election Assistance Commission. She served on the Brennan Center Taskforces on the Security and Usability of Voting Systems. She also served as a member of the ACM Committee on Guidelines for Implementation of Voter Registration Databases. She participated as a contributor in the academic paper "Towards a Privacy Measurement Criterion for Voting Systems." She has written several law journal articles on voting, and contributed to the development of the Election Incident Reporting System. She is a contributor to the New York Times Best Seller, 50 Ways to Love Your Country. She serves in an advisory capacity to several organizations, which include Verified Voting, ACCURATE, Voting System Performance Rating, and Open Voting Consortium. She is also on the board of Computing Professionals for Social Responsibility.

Ms. Coney also serves as the Coordinator for the Privacy Coalition. The Privacy Coalition has over 40 organizations and affiliates who share a commitment of freedom and privacy rights. The stature of the Coalition is acknowledged by the participation of administration officials including the Chair of the Federal Trade Commission, Chief Privacy Officers for the Department of Homeland Security, the Civil Liberties Protection Officer for the Office of National Intelligence, the Executive Director and Vice Chair of the Privacy & Civil Liberties Oversight Board, and several FTC Commissioners.

She has testified before the Department of Homeland Security's Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee on domestic surveillance and the topic of CCTV Surveillance and "Fusion Centers". She has submitted comments on the Children's Online, and coordinated a campaign on the Department of Defenses database on all youth 16-25 years of age, involving more than 125 organizations.

Ms. Coney was the former Public Policy Coordinator for the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM). Prior to that, Ms. Coney served as special assistant to Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) on a variety of issues ranging from energy and information technology policy, election reform, to education policy. Her background includes extensive work in computer systems and technology policy. She has over 20 years of experience working with a wide range of science and technology issues. She also has worked with civil rights and grassroots organizations on issues relating to voting and civil rights.

Ms. Coney received a BA in Political Science and a Masters in Public Administration from Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas. She is a former Systems Administrator who has designed and developed web sites for Congressional offices.

Contact Information
Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC
1718 Connecticut Avenue, Suite 200
Washington, DC 20009
coney@epic.org
+1 202 483-1140 x111 (office)
+1 202 483 1248 (fax)

Testimony and Comments to Federal Agencies:
Department of Homeland Security's Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee (September 19, 2007)
Department of Homeland Security's Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee (June 7, 2006)
Congressional Oversight of EAC's Enforcement of HAVA (October 4, 2005)
EAC Hearing on New Voluntary Voting System Guidelines (August 23, 2005)
EPIC Comments to the DOJ on Georgia Voting ID Preclearance (July 29, 2005)
EAC Agency Rulemaking on Statewide Centralized Voter Registration (May 25, 2005)
EAC Hearing on Statewide Centralized Voter Registration (April 28, 2005)
EAC Comments on Survey of States on Voter Registration: (March 1, 2005)
FTC Comments on Children's Online Privacy (February 14, 2005)
NIST Federal Employee IDs (February 14, 2005)
EAC's TGDC on Voter Privacy (September 22, 2004)