Chuck Cosson

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Non-Residential Fellow
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Chuck Cosson is Director, Legal Affairs, Privacy & Security, at T-Mobile US, based in Bellevue, WA.   At T-Mobile, Chuck oversees privacy compliance programs and provides legal guidance on mobile Internet, location services, incident response, and other privacy, security, and business issues.   Chuck spent 7 years at Microsoft leading that company’s public policy work on human rights, free expression, and child online safety.  He has also worked in Washington, D.C. on telecommunications policy and regulation.  His engagement with Stanford focuses on the role of metaphor as a guide for contemporary technology law and policy - a conception of the Internet not as a “place you go” but as a “tool you use.”