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Marshall Erwin

Marshall Erwin

Marshall Erwin is currently the Chief Security Officer at Mozilla, where he focuses on data security, privacy, and surveillance. He is an expert in cybersecurity and intelligence policy.

Marshall began his career in the intelligence community, where he worked for five years as a counterterrorism and cybersecurity analyst. He also served as the counterterrorism and intelligence adviser to Senator Susan Collins on the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, where he helped lead the committee’s investigation into the terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya. More recently, Marshall was the intelligence specialist at the Congressional Research Service, focusing upon National Security Agency surveillance leaks and legislative changes to FISA statute.

Recent articles

Blog

Points of Consensus on Rule 41

Senator Chris Coons, Democrat from Delaware, offered a bill today that would delay implementation of proposed changes to Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 41 f…

Publication

Hanging Internet Users Out to Dry

Over the past few months, a team at Mozilla has been looking closely at the recent remote hacking cases currently winding their way through the courts. Because…

Press

Christie, Paul, and the NSA

"A study by the New America Foundation, a centrist Washington think tank, agreed: "Surveillance of American phone metadata has had no discernible impa…

Publication

The Intelligence Time Machine

On Tuesday, members in the House and Senate introduced new versions of the USA Freedom Act that would prohibit bulk collection of records under Section 215 of t…