Panelist Bios

Data Privacy & Transparency in Private and Government Data Collection

Friday, April 4, 2014 at 9:00 a.m.
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
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Nate Cardozo

Nate Cardozo is a Staff Attorney on the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s digital civil liberties team, focusing on free speech and privacy litigation.  In addition, he works on EFF’s Who Has Your Back? Report and Codes’ Rights Project.  Nate’s work at EFF includes areas such as automotive privacy, government transparency, hardware hacking rights, anonymous speech, privacy law reform, and Freedom of Information Act litigation. Prior to joining EFF, Cardozo was an associate at Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP in the Products Liability/Mass Tort Group.

Nate received 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.

Lorrie Cranor

Lorrie Cranor is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. At Carnegie Mellon, she is the director of the CyLab Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory and co-director of the MSIT-Privacy Engineering masters program. Her research interests include usable privacy and security, technology, and public policy.

Lorrie has co-authored the pivotal book in her area of expertise titled Security and Usability (O’Reilly 2005).  In addition, she founded the Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), is Chief Scientist at Wombat Security Technologies, Inc., and chaired the Platform for Privacy Preferences Project (P3P) Specification Working Group at the W3C. Lorrie was previously a researcher at AT&T Labs Research and taught in the Stern School of Business at New York University.

Lorrie received an M.S. in Technology and Human Affairs, an M.S. in Computer Science, and D.Sc. in Engineering and Policy from Washington University in St. Louis.

Ryan P. Harkins

Ryan Harkins is a six-year veteran at Microsoft where he works as a Privacy Attorney.  Ryan has served as the lead privacy counsel for a number of Microsoft products and services, including Skype, Outlook.com, Office, Yammer, Microsoft Services and Microsoft Central Marketing.

He has expertise in a range of privacy issues under U.S., European and other laws relating to software development, children, online advertising, marketing, and data breach notification.  Prior to joining Microsoft, Ryan worked as a commercial litigator in Seattle and served as a law clerk to a U.S. District Court judge.

Mariko Hirose

Mariko Hirose is a staff attorney at the New York Civil Liberties Union, where her focus areas include statewide civil rights and civil liberties impact litigation, particularly in the LGBT and reproductive rights areas.

Prior to joining the NYCLU, Mariko was an associate Outten & Golden LLP, where she practiced employment law including class action sex discrimination litigation and wage-and-hour cases.

Mariko graduated from Stanford Law School in 2008, where she was an articles editor for Stanford Law Review. Following law school, Mariko clerked for the Honorable Stephen Reinhardt of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Helen Nissenbaum

Helen Nissenbaum is Director of the Information Law Institute and a Professor of Media, Culture and Communication, and Computer Science at New York University. Her areas of expertise include social, ethical and political implications of information and communications technology, and digital media (privacy, security, accountability, intellectual property, electronic publication, and computing in education). Helen has written or edited four books, her most recent work entitled Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life.

Many organizations and government agencies have supported her work on privacy, trust online and security, including the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the National Coordinator, the Ford Foundation and the National Science Foundation. Prior to joining faculty at NYU, she served as Associate Director of the Center for Human Values, Program in Ethics and Public Affairs at Princeton University.

Helen received a Ph.D. in Philosophy and a M.A. in Social Sciences in Education from Stanford University.

Ira Rubinstein

Ira Rubinstein is a Senior Fellow at the Information  Law Institute. His research interests include Internet privacy, electronic surveillance law, big data, and voter’s privacy. Ira lectures and publishes widely on issues of privacy and security and has testified before Congress on these topics on several occasions.

At the 5th annual Privacy Law Scholars Conference, Ira presented a paper titled “Privacy by Design: A Counterfactual Analysis of Google and Facebook Privacy Incidents,” which he co-authored with Nathan Good. The two won an award for the paper, which tests the belief held by many regulators that “privacy by design” enhances consumer privacy by undertaking a counterfactual analysis.

Prior to joining ILI, Ira spent seventeen years in Microsoft’s Legal and Corporate Affairs department, most recently as Associate General Counsel in charge of the Regulatory Affairs and Public Policy group.  Ira graduated from Yale Law School in 1985.

Christopher Wolf

Christopher Wolf leads the global Privacy and Information Management practice at the law firm of Hogan Lovells US LLP.  A native Washingtonian, Chris has practiced law for more than three decades in DC, and has focused on Internet and privacy law since the early days of those disciplines.  MSNBC has called Chris “a pioneer in Internet law” and the Washingtonian magazine dubbed him a 2013 “Tech Titan.”

Chris founded and co-chairs the Future of Privacy Forum and is a founder of the Coalition for Privacy and Free Trade. Chris is the editor and contributing author of legal treatises and co-author of a recent book on Internet hate speech, Viral Hate: Containing its Spread on the Internet (Macmillan Palgrave 2013), which he co-authored with Abraham H. Foxman, National Director of the Anti-Defamation League.  Chris is National Civil Rights Chair at the Anti-Defamation League, and is on the boards of other charitable organizations, including WETA Public Broadcasting, the George Washington University Hospital and Food & Friends, a social services agency.

Chris’ recent scholarly work includes white papers on law enforcement and national security access to data in the Cloud in comparative jurisdictions, a forthcoming Washington University (St. Louis) Law Review article on EU-US privacy, and a forthcoming article in the Journal on Telecommunications and High Technology Law on how a use-based framework can promote privacy.  Chris is a member of the American Law Institute and the Cosmos Club.