The MacArthur Foundation has selected EPIC Board Member and former Board Chair Danielle Citron for the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship. Recipients of what is commonly known as the…
Len Kennedy Joins EPIC as Fall 2019 Scholar in Residence!
Len Kennedy, EPIC Advisor and former general counsel for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Neustar Inc., joined EPIC as the Fall 2019 Scholar in…
Laura Donahue Discusses the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)
Laura Donahue, Georgetown Law Professor and EPIC Advisor, participated in a panel discussion hosted by the American Bar Association on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act…
Travis LeBlanc: Newest Member of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board
On July 11, 2019, Travis LeBlanc, vice-chair of Cooley’s privacy practice and EPIC Advisor, was sworn in as a member of the Privacy and Civil…
Latanya Sweeney Testifies before Congress on Election Security
On June 25, 2019, Dr. Latanya Sweeney, Professor of Government at Harvard University’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science, testified before the House Committee on Science,…
Nadine Strossen on how to Counter Misinformation and Hate Speech
EPIC Advisor, Nadine Strossen, has boldly defended individual rights and civil liberties throughout her career. From 1991 to 2008, Strossen served as the President of…
Elizabeth Joh on Police and Family Tree Investigations
Professor Elizabeth Joh teaches criminal law and procedure, constitutional law, and policing at the U.C. Davis School of Law. Her research focuses on the regulation…
A Look Back: Voting Security with Ronald Rivest
In the recently released Mueller report, we learned that Russian hackers executed highly targeted attacks which gave them access voter registration data, as well as,…
A Look Back: Peter Neumann on Computer System Vulnerabilities
“There are vulnerabilities in every part of our computer systems,” says Peter Nuemann, Computer Scientist and EPIC Advisor. After 10 years at Bell Labs in…
A Look Back: Stephanie Perrin on the Rights of Digital Citizens
“Change has been so rapid with the internet that we don’t really conceptualize what the internet is,” said Stephanie Perrin, President of Digital Discretion, Inc.…