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Jeffrey Vagle

Jeffrey Vagle

Affiliate Scholar

Jeffrey L. Vagle is an assistant professor of law with the Georgia State University College of Law, and teaches Privacy Law, Cybersecurity Law, and Law and Ethics of Technology. Professor Vagle’s areas of research and expertise include cybersecurity law and policy, privacy law, surveillance and race, and the ethics and regulation of technology.

Before joining the faculty at the Georgia State University College of Law, Professor Vagle taught at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law, where he was lecturer in law and the inaugural executive director of the Center for Technology, Innovation, and Competition at Penn Law. Before that, he practiced in the privacy and data protection practice group of Pepper Hamilton LLP in their Philadelphia office. Prior to law school, Professor Vagle worked in software research and development, finding solutions to problems in applied cryptography, information security, and artificial intelligence.

Professor Vagle received a J.D. from Temple University’s Beasley School of Law where he was editor-in-chief of the Temple International and Comparative Law Journal. He holds a B.A., cum laude, with distinction in mathematics, from Boston University, where he was a University Scholar.

Recent articles

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The Risks of Regulating Zero-Days

Among the principles that govern the current state of technology, two stand out as fundamental to our understanding of the information security problem. First,…

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Why Surveillance Matters (to All of Us)

The current debate in Congress over whether to allow Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act to expire has revived the interest of many in the question of surveillan…

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The Criminalization of Cryptography

Following the recent data breaches at Sony and the attacks at the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo, certain politicians have wasted no time calling for increased…