11/19 - CIS/SLATA Speaker Series: Google Transparency Report - Betsy Masiello and Richard Salgado

Betsy Masiello is a Policy Manager on Google’s public policy team. As part of her work at Google she is one of the leads for Google’s privacy efforts and for analyzing Google's and the Internet's impact on the economy. Prior to joining Google she was a consultant at McKinsey & Company, where she served global telecommunications companies on new business strategies around emerging technology. Masiello holds a BA in Computer Science from Wellesley College, a MSc in Economics from Oxford where she was a Rhodes Scholar, and an SM from MIT’s Technology & Policy Program.

Richard Salgado serves as Google's Senior Counsel for law enforcement and information
security matters. Prior to joining Google, Mr. Salgado was with Yahoo!, focusing on international security and law enforcement compliance work. He also served as Senior Counsel in the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section of the United States Department of Justice. As a federal prosecutor, Mr. Salgado specialized in investigating and prosecuting computer network cases, such as computer hacking, illegal computer wiretaps, denial of service attacks, malicious code and other technology-driven privacy crimes. Mr. Salgado is also a senior instructor with the SANS Institute, and instructs on the legal issues in computer forensic analysis. In 2005, Mr. Salgado joined Stanford Law School as a legal lecturer on Computer Crime, and on Internet Business Legal and Policy Issues; he previously served as an adjunct law professor at Georgetown University Law Center and George Mason Law School, and as a faculty member of the National Judicial College. Mr. Salgado regularly speaks on the legal and policy implications of searching and seizing computers and electronic evidence, emerging surveillance technologies, digital evidence and related criminal conduct. Mr. Salgado graduated magna cum laude from the University of New Mexico and in 1989 received his J.D. from Yale Law School.Betsy Masiello and Richard Salgado will discuss Google's Transparency Report, a tool that details global government take down and user information requests. A new feature now indicates when and where Google is blocked. From the Google Blog:

We’ve created an interactive map of Government Requests that shows the number of government inquiries for information about users and requests for Google to take down or censor content. We hope this step toward greater transparency will help in ongoing discussions about the appropriate scope and authority of government requests.

Our interactive Traffic graphs provide information about traffic to Google services around the world. Each graph shows historic traffic patterns for a given country/region and service. By illustrating outages, this tool visualizes disruptions in the free flow of information, whether it's a government blocking information or a cable being cut. We hope this raw data will help facilitate studies about service outages and disruptions.