VIDEOS NOW AVAILABLE!
The Symposium, which took place on April 25th, 2014 at the UCLA School of Law, brought together thought leaders from around the country to discuss critical privacy and national security issues.
Speaker List:
Adam Moore
Associate Professor, Information School and Adjunct Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Washington;
Author, Privacy Rights: Moral and Legal Foundations;
Author, Information Ethics: Privacy, Property, and Power
Bruce Fein
Bruce Fein & Associates;
Constitutional lawyer, author, scholar;
Author, Constitutional Peril: The Life and Death Struggle for Our Constitution and Democracy
Cindy Cohn
Legal Director and General Counsel, Electronic Frontier Foundation;
Recent recipient of the James Madison Freedom of Information Award given by the Northern California Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists
National Law Journal “100 Most Influential Lawyers in America, 2013”
Chris Edelson
Director, Politics, Policy and Law (PPL) Scholars Program; Assistant Professor, Department of Government, School of Public Affairs, American University;
Author, Emergency Presidential Power: From the Drafting of the Constitution to the War on Terror;
Former State Legislative Director, Human Rights Campaign
Cynthia Lebow
Lecturer, UCLA Department of Political Science
Edina Lekovic
Director, Policy and Programming, Muslim American Public Affairs Council, Los Angeles
Henry Willis
Director, RAND Homeland Security and Defense Center;
Senior Policy Researcher;
Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Julia Angwin
Investigative Reporter, ProPublica;
Former Staff Reporter, Wall Street Journal (part of team of reporters awarded the Pulitzer Prize);
Author, Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance
Katherine Stern
Senior Counsel, Rule of Law Program, The Constitution Project
Kent Wada
UCLA Chief Privacy Officer and Director, Strategic IT Policy
Working Group Chair, UC Privacy and Information Security Initiative
Mike German
Fellow, Brennan Center for Justice, New York University;
Former Counsel for national security and privacy, ACLU;
Former special agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation