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Chuck Cosson

Chuck Cosson

Non-Residential Fellow

Chuck Cosson is currently an Adjunct Professor at Seattle University School of Law, teaching cybersecurity law.  Through November 2023, Chuck was a Director, Legal Affairs, Privacy & Security, at T-Mobile US, based in Bellevue, WA.   At T-Mobile, Chuck managed privacy compliance programs and provided legal guidance on mobile Internet, location services, incident response, and other privacy, security, and business issues.   Chuck also spent 7 years at Microsoft leading that company’s public policy work on human rights, free expression, and child online safety, and was Vice President, Public Policy for Vodafone's Americas Asia region.  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.”

Recent articles

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Tool Without A Handle: Online Confessions

In my last post,[1] I wrote of moral hazards created by privacy, using extramarital affairs as just one example (really, any legal or moral wrongdoing facilitat…

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Tool Without a Handle: "Trustworthy Tools"

“Tool Without a Handle:  Trustworthy Tools” “’What is truth?’ said jesting Pilate, who did not stay for an answer.” – Francis Bacon, Of Truth (Essays, Civil an…

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"Tool Without A Handle" - Mobile Tools

“Tool Without a Handle” – Mobile Tools This post continues my thoughts on qualities of digital tools that have helped make political and artistic expression mo…