Presented at
BSidesSF 2017,
Feb. 12, 2017, 5:20 p.m.
(30 minutes)
Ask the EFF is a Q&A panel with EFF staffers, with short presentations on EFF's ongoing work, then opening the floor for questions from the audience.
Presenters:
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Jamie Lee Williams
Jamie is is a staff attorney on the civil liberties team, who focuses on the First and Fourth Amendment implications of new technologies.
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Erica Portnoy
- Staff Technologist - Electronic Frontier Foundation
Erica develops Certbot, the web's https-enabling robot buddy. She earned her BSE in computer science at Princeton, where she researched oblivious computation for messaging privacy and took two different classes where she had to watch Star Trek for homework. Upon graduating, she protected authentication tokens in secure enclaves and experimented with searchable encryption. She likes dogs, the pouring rain, and being right.
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Gennie Gebhart
- Researcher - Electrnoic Frontier Foundatino
Gennie does research and advocacy on consumer privacy, surveillance, and security issues.
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Kurt Opsahl
- Deputy ED and General Counsel - Electronic Frontier Foundation
Kurt Opsahl is the Deputy Executive Director and General Counsel of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. In addition to representing clients on civil liberties, free speech and privacy law, Opsahl counsels on EFF projects and initiatives. Opsahl is the lead attorney on the Coders' Rights Project. Before joining EFF, Opsahl worked at Perkins Coie, where he represented technology clients with respect to intellectual property, privacy, defamation, and other online liability matters. Prior to Perkins, Opsahl was a research fellow to Professor Pamela Samuelson at the U.C. Berkeley School of Information Management & Systems. Opsahl received his law degree from Boalt Hall Opsahl co-authored "Electronic Media and Privacy Law Handbook." In 2007, Opsahl was named as one of the "Attorneys of the Year" by California Lawyer magazine. In 2014, Opsahl was elected to the USENIX Board of Directors.
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Nate Cardozo
- Senior Staff Attorney - Electronic Frontier Foundation
NATE CARDOZO is a Senior Staff Attorney on the Electronic Frontier Foundation's digital civil liberties team. In addition to his focus on free speech and privacy litigation, Nate works on EFF's Who Has Your Back? report and Coders' Rights Project. Nate has projects involving cryptography and the law, automotive privacy, government transparency, hardware hacking rights, anonymous speech, electronic privacy law reform, Freedom of Information Act litigation, and resisting the expansion of the surveillance state. A 2009-2010 EFF Open Government Legal Fellow, Nate spent two years in private practice before returning to his senses and to EFF in 2012. Nate has a B.A. in Anthropology and Politics from U.C. Santa Cruz and a J.D. from U.C. Hastings where he has taught first-year legal writing and moot court. He brews his own beer, has been to India four times, and watches too much Bollywood.
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