Diane Akerman is a public defender working in the Legal Aid Society's Digital Forensics Unit (DFU). The Digital Forensics Unit is dedicated to fighting the unregulated and unfettered use of surveillance technology primarily by the NYPD. Her work involves investigating and uncovering the purchase and use of technologies, developing litigation strategies in criminal cases, and advocating for policy changes. She has litigated the full array of electronic surveillance technologies employed by the NYPD and local law enforcement, including cell phone tracking, GPS, ShotSpotter and facial recognition technology. She knows what it's like to get that email from Facebook informing you that they are about to give the federal government all your data, and to have her cell phone a mere Judge's signature away from a Cellebrite machine.