Robert Ellis Smith

A journalist for four decades, Robert Ellis Smith has collected stories of his in-person encounters with famous persons in his new 2018 eBook, "Faces I Have Known -- Castro, Kennedys, Hoffa, LBJ, Ayn Rand, Jimmy Carter, Steinem, Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, and more.

He has encountered up-close eight U.S. Presidents and nearly run down two of them.

Hoffa would have killed him if he had discovered Smith in the back room.

Publisher of PRIVACY JOURNAL newsletter since 1974; attorney; journalist.

Frequent speaker, expert witness, legislative witness.

Long recognized as international expert on privacy - medical and credit records, employment, electronic surveillance, Internet, email, genetics, student rights, Social Security numbers, biometrics, common-law right to privacy.

Based in Providence RI.

Since 2011, he has expanded his interests to include the people and the places of the islands of the world. See "The Magnetism of Islands," his acclaimed eBook.