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Janlori Goldman created the Health Privacy Project in December, 1997. The Project is dedicated to ensuring that people's privacy is safeguarded in the health care environment. Ms. Goldman is also Research Faculty at the Center on Medicine as a Profession at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. In 1994, Ms. Goldman co-founded the Center for Democracy and Technology, a non-profit civil liberties organization committed to preserving free speech and privacy on the Internet. Ms. Goldman also worked at the Electronic Frontier Foundation in 1994. From 1986 to 1994, Ms. Goldman was the staff attorney and Director of the Privacy and Technology Project of the American Civil Liberties Union. While at the ACLU, Ms. Goldman led the effort to enact the Video Privacy Protection Act and led efforts to protect people's health, credit and financial information and personal information held by the government. Ms. Goldman testifies frequently before the U.S. Congress, and served on numerous commissions and advisory boards. Her many publications include “Bioterrorism, Public Health and Privacy,” included in Lost Liberties: Ashcroft and the Assault on Personal Freedom.