Ryan Calo, Director of Privacy and Robotics, joins the EPIC Advisory Board.
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FOR RELEASE
April 10, 2012
EPIC Announces New Advisory Board Members
Distinguished Experts in Law, Technology, and Public Policy
Join Leading Privacy Organization
WASHINGTON, DC – The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) announced today the individuals joining the EPIC Advisory Board in 2012.
They are:
Colin Bennett
Professor of Political Science, University of Victoria, Canada
Ryan Calo
Director of Privacy and Robotics, Center for Internet and Society,
Stanford University Law School
Laura Donohue
Associate Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
Cynthia Dwork
Distinguished Scientist, Microsoft Research
Orin Kerr
Professor of Law, The George Washington University
Frank A. Pasquale
Professor of Law, Seton Hall University
The EPIC Advisory Board is a distinguished group of experts that includes leading innovators, scholars, and advocates.
EPIC Board Chair Deborah Hurley said, “We are very pleased to welcome our new members to the EPIC Advisory Board. This is an extraordinary group of individuals who will bring much to our work.”
Professor Colin Bennet is a leading expert in surveillance technologies and privacy. He has published six books, including "The Governance of Privacy: Policy Instruments in Global Perspective" (2006), "The Privacy Advocates: Resisting the Spread of Surveillance" (2008) and "Security Games: Surveillance and Control at Mega-Events" (2011).
Ryan Calo is Director of Privacy and Robotics at Stanford Law School. His work has been featured in the New York Times, the San Jose Mercury News, the Wall Street Journal, and other publications. He co-chairs the American Bar Association Committee on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence.
Professor Donohue has held fellowships at Stanford Law School’s Center for Constitutional Law, Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation, and Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Her areas of expertise include state secrets; surveillance, data collection and analysis; extended detention and interrogation; and the history of quarantine law.
Dr. Dwork is a leading expert in distributed computing, cryptography, and e-mail spam prevention. Her research interests also include private data analysis, complexity theory, web search, voting theory, interconnection networks, algorithm design and analysis In 2008, she was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) and as a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Professor Kerr is one of the nation’s leading scholars in criminal law and criminal procedure. He is frequently cited in opinions by district and appellate courts. Among his many publications, he is coauthor of the leading casebook and the leading treatise in criminal procedure. Before attending law school, he earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in mechanical engineering.
Professor Pasquale has served as the Chair of the Section on Privacy and Defamation of the Association of American Law Schools, and is an Affiliate Fellow at Yale Law School's Information Society Project. His scholarship focuses on the power wielded by large intermediaries, including insurers, Internet service providers, financial institutions, and search engines.
EPIC also announces three new members of the Board of Directors: Attorney and privacy advocate Grayson Barber, former FTC Commissioner Pamela Jones Harbour, and technology entrepreneur Ray Ozzie. The incoming Board members will replace Whitfield Diffie, Mary Minow, and Paul Smith, who will be stepping down from the Board after the completion of their terms.
EPIC is a public interest research center based in Washington, D.C. EPIC focuses public attention on emerging privacy and civil liberties issues, frequently testifies in Congress, and files amicus briefs in federal and state courts. EPIC also maintains two of the world’s most popular sites on privacy – EPIC.ORG and PRIVACY.ORG.