Katherine Albrecht is a consumer privacy expert and the founder of CASPIAN, Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering, a national consumer organization created in 1999 to educate consumer-citizens about shopper surveillance. Katherine has conducted extensive research on surveillance technology used in retail stores, uncovering everything from homing beacons hidden in grocery carts to microphones that record conversations at sit-down restaurants like Denny's. Katherine has even found evidence of tracking devices being planted in people's shoes.
She holds an undergraduate degree in International Marketing and a Master's degree in Instructional Psychology. She is currently completing her doctoral studies at Harvard University where she is writing her dissertation on consumer privacy and consumer psychology.