Lori Fena

Lori Fena is an American internet activist, entrepreneur, and author, best known as the former director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation from 1995 to 1998 and author of "The Hundredth Window". Fena is currently the co-founder and VP of Business Development for Personal Digital Spaces and Founder and executive director of the Sustainable Information Economy.

Business Fena has a BSc in business information systems from California State University, Los Angeles. In 1993, she co-founded the Technology Board of Trade with Bates, which was an exchange for technology, including software, patents, and licenses. Fena sold the company to Corporate Software, which later became Stream International. Fena was VP of business development at Corporate Software/Stream, and continued as an investor with her husband Edward Zyszkowski, Joe Rizzi, and Thampy Thomas.

Electronic Frontier Foundation In September 1995, She was EFF chairman from January 1998 – 2000. Fena launched the Silver Anvil Award-winning online grassroots Blue Ribbon Campaign for free speech, and founded and spun out TRUSTe.org, a non-profit web-seal organization that created and enforced the industry standard and EU safe harbor for online personal information.

Later work In 2000 she became a member of Doubleclick's consumer privacy advisory board. Tara Lemmey said that "Lori strongly believes that it's important in every way possible to encourage businesses to do the most right thing in terms of consumer privacy and socially responsible business." She was also a partner in Exprise Investments. Fena served on the Board of Trustees of Norfolk Library. Fena authored reports and provided expert testimony in the landmark Federal Court Lanham Act case regarding deceptive advertising and online notice and consent mechanisms used in the collection and resale of college-bound students' personal information which was provided for admissions and financial aid.

Currently, Fena is the co-founder and Head of Business Development for Personal Digital Spaces, a cloud-based, blockchain-provenanced application services platform that provides real-time data management and monetization services.

Book Fena, Lori & Jennings, Charles. The Hundredth Window: Protecting Your Privacy and Security in the Age of the Internet (2000) Simon & Schuster Free Press.

Jason Catlett of Junkbusters.com argued that "It's really not a pro-privacy book."

Personal life Fena is from Anchorage, Alaska. Her mother Nancy worked as a reservation agent with Wien Air Alaska, and her father James was in the USAF. She is married to Edward Zyszkowski,