The 4th Annual Data Privacy Conference USA will take place in Washington D.C. on September 14th 2022 and gather thought leaders, legislators, the public and private sectors, and civil society representatives to discuss the most topical and timely issues relating Data Privacy in the US.
This event will take place in-person only. Registration is now open and free for all attendees.
Suzan DelBene, US Congresswoman, United States House of Representatives Congresswoman Suzan DelBene represents Washington’s 1st Congressional District, which spans northeast King County to the Canadian border and includes parts of King, Snohomish, Skagit, and Whatcom counties.
Suzan brings a unique voice to the nation’s capital with more than two decades of experience as a successful technology entrepreneur and business leader. She takes on a wide range of challenges both in Congress and in the 1st District as a leader on issues of technology, health care, trade, taxes, environmental conservation, and agriculture, and as a champion for working families.
She currently serves as Chair of the forward-thinking New Democrat Coalition, the largest ideological caucus among House Democrats. She also serves as the Vice Chair on the House Ways and Means Committee and is on the Select Revenue Measures and Trade Subcommittees.
Suzan started her career in immunology research before earning an MBA from the University of Washington and embarking on a successful career as a technology leader and innovator. Over more than two decades as an executive and entrepreneur, she helped to start drugstore.com and served as CEO and President of Nimble Technology. Suzan also spent 12 years at Microsoft, most recently as corporate vice president of the company’s mobile communications business.
Before being elected to Congress, Suzan served as Director of the Washington State Department of Revenue.
US Congresswoman
United States House of Representatives
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Senator Ed Markey, US Senator for Massachusetts, US Senate For more than 40 years, Senator Markey has served the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as a Congressman and U.S. Senator. He has been a national leader and author of some of the most important laws in the areas of energy, the environment, and telecommunications policy. On a bipartisan basis, he has passed more than 500 pieces of legislation into law. He has been a powerful and effective voice for enhancing energy efficiency, transitioning our economy to clean and sustainable energy resources and mitigating the consequences of climate change; bolstering U.S. and global security by staunching nuclear proliferation and promoting arms control; defending human rights; enacting financial reforms to protect consumers and investors against the types of abuses that directly triggered the global recession; ensuring the continued openness of the internet; and advancing the interests of consumers by injecting competitiveness into electric, telecommunications and telephone markets, and protecting the privacy of personal information.
Senator Markey currently serves as Chair of the East Asia, the Pacific, and International Cybersecurity Policy Subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Chair of the Clean Air, Climate and Nuclear Safety Subcommittee of the Environment and Public Committee; as well as a member of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee and the Small Business Committee.
Senator Markey received his B.A. from Boston College and his J.D. from Boston College Law School. He served in the U.S. Army Reserve and two terms in the Massachusetts State House before being elected to Congress.
US Senator for Massachusetts
US Senate
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Peter A.Winn, Acting Chief Privacy and Civil Liberties Officer, Department of Justice Peter A. Winn currently serves as the Acting Chief Privacy and Civil Liberties Officer (CPCLO) of the United States Department of Justice.
The CPCLO is responsible for ensuring the Department’s compliance with the laws, regulations and established policies designed to protect the privacy of individuals, as well as ensuring that concerns about privacy and civil liberties are appropriately considered in the development and implementation of laws, regulations and policies related to the Department’s mission. The Department of Justice Office of Privacy and Civil Liberties consists of a team of specialized attorneys and privacy professionals dedicated to carrying out the responsibilities of the CPCLO. Mr. Winn has served as the Acting CPCLO of the Department since January 2017.
Prior to becoming the Acting CPCLO, Mr. Winn served for nearly 20 years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney (AUSA) in the Western District of Washington and the Northern District of Texas. In 2014, he served a detail to the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board where he was its Acting General Counsel during its review of the National Security Agency programs that were the subject of the Edward Snowden disclosures. From 2010 to 2012, he served a detail to the Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel, where he was an attorney-advisor. Before joining the Department of Justice as an AUSA, he was a Special Assistant Attorney General for the Attorney General of Texas, and an associate at Carrington, Coleman in Dallas, and Patterson, Belknap in New York. He clerked for James B. McMillan, in the Western District of North Carolina.
Mr. Winn has taught as an adjunct professor at the school of law at University of Washington, at Southern Methodist University, and at the University of Melbourne. He has published articles on the Fourth Amendment, computer security, health privacy, and the right of access to public court records. He received his J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1986, an MPhil in Philosophy from the University of London where he was a Marshall Scholar, and a B.A. magna cum laude from Williams College. As a young child, he grew up in Myanmar (then known as Burma), where his parents were Christian missionaries.
Acting Chief Privacy and Civil Liberties Officer
Department of Justice
Shannon Coe, Director of Global Data Policy, US Department of Commerce Shannon Coe is the Director of Global Data Policy in the U.S. Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration. In this capacity, she leads a team that focuses on policy issues affecting cross border data flows that support international trade, including in multilateral fora such as APEC, the OECD, G20 and the G7. Shannon leads the U.S. delegation in the APEC Digital Economy Steering Group, has served as Chair of the APEC Data Privacy Subgroup and E-Commerce Steering Group, and oversees the U.S. efforts to implement the Cross Border Privacy Rules System and establish the Global Cross Border Privacy Rules Forum. She was a key member of the team negotiating the EU-U.S. and Swiss Privacy Shield Frameworks, led the implementation of the programs, and oversaw the first annual review. Prior to joining ITA, Shannon worked on a variety of international trade issues as an attorney at the Department of Commerce and before that was a corporate attorney in New York.
Director of Global Data Policy
US Department of Commerce
Ronnie Solomon, Attorney, Division of Privacy and Identity Protection, Federal Trade Commission Ronnie is an attorney in the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, Division of Privacy and Identity Protection. He focuses on data privacy and security and enforcing federal consumer protection laws through conducting investigations, bringing civil enforcement actions in federal and administrative court, and policy-related work. During his time at the FTC, Ronnie has focused on a broad range of cutting-edge consumer protection and competition matters relating to emerging technologies, consumer advertising, and digital health. Before joining the FTC, Ronnie practiced in the litigation group at Fenwick & West LLP in San Francisco.
Attorney, Division of Privacy and Identity Protection
Federal Trade Commission
Lindsey Barrett, Telecommunications Policy Analyst, NTIA Lindsey Barrett is a Telecommunications Policy Analyst at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, where she focuses on internet policy. Her experience in technology policy includes developing and co-teaching the Technology Law & Policy Investigations Practicum at Georgetown Law, advocating for public interest clients in technology policy matters as a teaching fellow and staff attorney at Georgetown’s Communications & Technology Law Clinic, and numerous publications on consumer privacy and the Fourth Amendment in law journals and in popular press. She received her B.A. from Duke cum laude, and both an LL.M. in advocacy with distinction and her law degree from Georgetown.
Telecommunications Policy Analyst
NTIA
Cameron F. Kerry, Distinguished visiting fellow, Center for Technology Innovation, Brookings Institution Cameron Kerry is a global thought leader on privacy and cross-border information flows. He joined Governance Studies and the Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings in December 2013 as the first Ann R. and Andrew H. Tisch Distinguished Visiting Fellow. Previously, Kerry served as general counsel and acting secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce, where he was a leader on a wide of range of issues including technology, trade, and economic growth and security. He continues to speak and write on these issues, focusing primarily on privacy and information security, along with the international digital economy. During his time as acting secretary, Kerry served as chief executive of this Cabinet agency and its 43,000 employees around the world, as well as an adviser to former President Barack Obama. His tenure marked the first time in U.S. history two siblings have served in the president’s Cabinet at the same time.
As general counsel, he was the principal legal adviser to the several Secretaries of Commerce and Commerce agency heads. As co-chair of the National Science and Technology Council Subcommittee on Privacy and Internet Policy, Kerry spearheaded development of the White House blueprint on consumer privacy, Consumer Data Privacy in a Networked World: A Framework for Protecting Privacy and Promoting Innovation in the Global Digital Economy. He then led the administration’s implementation of the blueprint, drafting privacy legislation and engaging in privacy issues with international partners, including the European Union. He was a leader in the Obama administration’s successful effort to pass the America Invents Act, the most significant overhaul of the patent system in more than 150 years. He helped establish and lead the Commerce Department’s Internet Policy Task Force, and was the department’s representative on cybersecurity issues and similar issues in the White House “Deputies Committee.” Kerry also played a significant role on intellectual property policy and litigation, cybersecurity, international bribery, trade relations and rule of law development in China, the Gulf Oil spill litigation, and many other challenges facing a large, diverse federal agency. He travelled to the People’s Republic of China on numerous occasions to co-lead the Transparency Dialogue with China as well as the U.S.-China Legal Exchange and exchanges on anti-corruption.
In addition to his Brookings affiliation, Kerry is a visiting scholar at the MIT Media Lab. He also served as senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP in Boston, Massachusetts and Washington, D.C., where his practice involved privacy, security, and international trade issues. Before Kerry’s appointment to the Obama administration in 2009, he practiced law at the Mintz Levin firm in Boston and Washington and taught telecommunications law as an adjunct professor at Suffolk University Law School. Kerry has also been actively engaged in politics and community service throughout his adult life. During the 2004 presidential campaign, he was a close adviser and national surrogate for Democratic nominee John Kerry, traveling to 29 States and even Israel. He has served on the boards of nonprofits, and is currently on the board of the National Archives Foundation.
The Ann R. and Andrew H. Tisch Distinguished Visiting Fellows in Governance Studies are individuals of particularly noteworthy distinction. The fellowship is designed to bring distinguished visitors from government, business, journalism, and academia to Brookings to write about challenges facing the country. Kerry is the first to be named to this prestigious fellowship.
Distinguished visiting fellow, Center for Technology Innovation
Brookings Institution
Ralf Sauer, Deputy Head of Unit - Data Flows and Protection, DG JUSTICE, European Commission Ralf Sauer is the Deputy Head ‘International Data Flows and Protection’ in the Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers at the European Commission, the European Union’s executive arm. The department covers data flows both for commercial and law enforcement purposes. He has been one of the key negotiators of the EU-US Privacy Shield and its successor, the Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework, as well as the adequacy arrangements with Japan and Korea. He has also led the European Commission’s work on the new model clauses for data protection contracts (Standard Contractual Clauses). At multilateral level, Ralf Sauer has represented the European Commission in the negotiations on a modernisation of Council of Europe Convention 108, the only binding global agreement on data protection, and on a Second Additional Protocol to the Cybercrime (Budapest) Convention. He regularly speaks at international conferences and panels on data protection issues. Previously, Ralf Sauer worked for almost 10 years in the European Commission’s Legal Service, among others representing the Commission before the European courts in more than 200 cases. He holds an LL.M. and doctoral degree from Yale Law School.
Deputy Head of Unit – Data Flows and Protection, DG JUSTICE
European Commission
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Audrey Plonk, Head of Digital Economy Policy Division - Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation, OECD As Head of Division, Ms. Plonk is responsible for implementing the programme of work of two committees: the Committee on Digital Economy Policy (CDEP) and the Committee for Consumer Policy (CCP) as well as the management of STI’s Digital Economy Division. In particular, she contributes to the development of evidence-based policies through multi-stakeholder processes to i) stimulate the growth of an accessible, innovative, open, inclusive and trustworthy digital economy for
sustained prosperity and well-being, and ii) provide policymakers with the tools needed to develop a forward-looking, whole-of-government policy response that leverages the potential of digitalisation for growth and well-being.
In this role, she supports the strategic work of STI the advancement of the Office of the Secretary General’s Strategic Objectives. She will also lead and contribute to related horizontal work across the Organisation.
Prior to re-joining STI, Ms Plonk was Senior Director, Global Security Policy at Intel Corporation where she was also a Senior Director for Public Policy based in Santa Clara, California. Over the course of her more than 10 years at Intel, Audrey led a global team of policy experts focused on connectivity, data, artificial intelligence and autonomous driving policy issues. She also specialized in China cyber policy and advised Intel business and product teams on China strategy. She chaired numerous industry committees including the Cybersecurity Committee at the Information Technology and Industry Council (ITI) and the Cybersecurity subcommittee of the Trans-Atlantic Business Council (TABC) and has provided testimony multiple times before the US Congress. In 2009, Ms. Plonk joined the board of The Privacy Projects and later took over Chairmanship of the not-for-profit organization focused on funding research in overlooked areas of privacy practice, policy and law. She has been a guest lecturer at The University of California Berkeley’s School of Information and has taught cyber policy courses at the US Technology Training Institute. Ms. Plonk is currently a member of the National Academies of Sciences Forum on Cyber Resilience.
In 2007, Ms. Plonk worked on digital security issues in STI including malicious software and the protection of critical information infrastructure. This was preceded by four years as a consultant at the Department of Homeland Security’s National Cyber Security Division where she led work on international cooperation in cyberspace and cybersecurity.
Ms. Plonk, an American national, holds a Bachelor’s Degree in International Affairs from The George Washington University (Washington, DC, United States).
Head of Digital Economy Policy Division – Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation
OECD
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George Slover, General Counsel, & Senior Counsel for Competition Policy, Center for Democracy & Technology George Slover is Senior Counsel for Competition Policy at the Center for Democracy and Technology, and also General Counsel. He has more than three decades of experience in antitrust and competition policy.
He came to CDT from Consumer Reports, where he was Senior Policy Counsel. Earlier in his career, he was Lead Antitrust Counsel at the House Judiciary Committee, Attorney-Advisor for Legal Policy at the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, Advisor to the Antitrust Modernization Commission, and Chief Legislative Counsel and Parliamentarian at the House Judiciary Committee. He is a member of the American Antitrust Institute’s Advisory Board, and an elected member of the American Law Institute. He holds a BA in mathematics from Vanderbilt University, a JD from the University of Texas School of Law, and a Master’s in Public Affairs from the LBJ School.
General Counsel, & Senior Counsel for Competition Policy
Center for Democracy & Technology
Jim Siegl, Senior Technologist, Youth & Education Privacy, Future of Privacy Forum Jim Siegl, CIPT, is a Senior Technologist with the Youth & Education Privacy team. For nearly two decades prior to joining FPF, Jim was a Technology Architect for the Fairfax County Public School District with a focus on privacy, security, identity management, interoperability, and learning management systems. He was a co-author of the CoSN Privacy Toolkit and the Trusted Learning Environment (TLE) seal program and holds a Master of Science in the Management of Information Technology from the University of Virginia.
Senior Technologist, Youth & Education Privacy
Future of Privacy Forum
Maureen K. Ohlhausen, Section Chair - Antitrust & Competition Law, Partner, Baker Botts Maureen K. Ohlhausen chairs the antitrust group at Baker Botts LLP, where she focuses on competition, privacy and regulatory issues and frequently represents clients in the tech, life sciences, energy, and retail industries. She served as Acting FTC Chairman from January 2017 to May 2018 and as a Commissioner starting in 2012. She directed all FTC competition and consumer protection work, with a particular emphasis on privacy and technology issues. Ohlhausen has published dozens of articles on antitrust, privacy, regulation, FTC litigation, and telecommunications law issues and has testified over a dozen times before Congress. She has received numerous awards, including the FTC’s Robert Pitofsky Lifetime Achievement Award. Prior to serving as a Commissioner, Ohlhausen led the FTC’s Internet Access Task Force and headed the FTC practice group at a leading communications law firm. Ohlhausen clerked at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and received her J.D. with distinction from the George Mason University School of Law and her B.A. with honors from the University of Virginia.
Section Chair – Antitrust & Competition Law, Partner
Baker Botts
Stacy Feuer, Sr. Vice President, Privacy Certified, ESRB As senior vice president of ESRB Privacy Certified, Stacy ensures that member companies in the video game and toy industries adopt and maintain lawful, transparent, and responsible privacy practices and policies for their websites, mobile apps, and online services. On a day-to-day basis, she provides member companies with practical advice on resolving privacy challenges arising from the constantly changing, complex global data privacy landscape. Stacy oversees compliance with ESRB’s privacy certifications, including its “Kids Certified” seal, which is an approved Safe Harbor program under the Federal Trade Commission’s Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) Rule.
Before joining ESRB, Stacy spent more than 21 years as an enforcer and regulator at the Federal Trade Commission, developing deep experience in privacy, advertising, and international issues involving consumer-facing digital technologies. As the FTC’s Assistant Director for International Consumer Protection, she served as a lead delegate to the OECD and other international organizations and coordinated with foreign consumer protection and data protection authorities on investigations and cases. Stacy was also a partner in an international litigation firm and clerked for a federal district court judge. Stacy is a graduate of Cornell University and the New York University School of Law.
Sr. Vice President, Privacy Certified
ESRB
Lourdes Turrecha, Founder and Chief Privacy Tech Evangelist, The Rise of Privacy Tech Lourdes M. Turrecha is a privacy, cybersecurity, and data protection strategist, lawyer, and leader, with 10+ years of combined experience in the areas of privacy, law, security, policy, and compliance. Turrecha also founded The Rise of Privacy Tech, an initiative with a mission to fuel privacy innovation by bringing together privacy tech founders, investors, and advisors to bridge the existing tech-capital-expertise gaps in privacy innovation. She is a Privacy Tech Advisor and Investor. She advises privacy tech startups on their privacy strategy, covering product design and market positioning in the nascent privacy tech landscape. She also helps investors develop their privacy tech theses.
Lourdes is Privacy Tech & Law Fellow and Adjunct Professor of Privacy Law at Santa Clara University School of Law’s leading privacy program, where she developed and teaches an experiential course on Privacy & Technology. She is also an Innovators Network Foundation (INF) Privacy Fellow.
Founder and Chief Privacy Tech Evangelist
The Rise of Privacy Tech
Jane Bambauer, Professor of Law, University of Arizona Professor Bambauer is a professor of law at the University of Arizona. She teaches and studies the fundamental problems of well-intended technology policies. Her research assesses the social costs and benefits of Big Data and how new information technologies affect free speech, privacy, and competitive markets. She also serves as the co-deputy director of the Center for Quantum Networks, a multi-institutional engineering research center funded by the National Science Foundation, where she facilitates research on economic and regulatory policy for emerging markets in quantum technologies. Her work has been featured in more than 20 scholarly publications including the Stanford Law Review, the Michigan Law Review, the California Law Review, and the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies. Her work has also been featured in media outlets including the Washington Post, the New York Times, Fox News, and Lawfare. She holds a BS in Mathematics from Yale College and a J.D. from Yale Law School.
Professor of Law
University of Arizona
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Matthew Reisman, Director, Global Privacy Policy, Microsoft As a Director on the Global Privacy Policy team within Microsoft’s Office of Privacy & Regulatory Affairs (PRA), Matthew Reisman helps to shape Microsoft’s approach to privacy and data protection policy around the world. Matthew previously worked on Microsoft’s U.S. Government Affairs team, with a focus on digital trade policy, export controls, and supply chain policy. Prior to joining Microsoft, Matthew was a Lead International Trade Analyst at the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC), where he led research on digital trade for Congress, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), and the public. Matthew was a graduate intern in USTR’s WTO & Multilateral Affairs office and a Fulbright Student Fellow in West Africa. Matthew holds a Master’s in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School and an undergraduate degree from Duke University.
Director, Global Privacy Policy
Microsoft
Aaron Cooper, Vice President, Global Policy, BSA | The Software Alliance Aaron Cooper serves as Vice President, Global Policy. In this role, Cooper leads BSA’s global policy team and contributes to the advancement of BSA members’ policy priorities around the world that affect the development of emerging technologies, including data privacy, cybersecurity, AI regulation, data flows and digital trade. He testifies before Congress and is a frequent speaker on data governance and other issues important to the software industry.
Cooper previously served as a Chief Counsel for Chairman Patrick Leahy on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, and as Legal Counsel to Senator Paul Sarbanes. Cooper came to BSA from Covington and Burling, where he was of counsel, providing strategic guidance and policy advice on a broad range of technology issues.
Cooper is a graduate of Princeton University and Vanderbilt Law School. He clerked for Judge Gerald Tjoflat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
Vice President, Global Policy
BSA | The Software Alliance
Evangelos Razis, Senior Manager for Public Policy, Workday Evangelos Razis is Senior Manager of Public Policy at Workday, where he leads U.S. policy engagement on privacy, data flows, and artificial intelligence matters.
Before joining Workday, Evangelos was at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the world’s largest business association. There he led digital trade and global data policy, including issues related to the U.S.-EU Privacy Shield, and advocated for open data governance frameworks in key U.S. export markets on six continents.
Previously, Evangelos was at Fujitsu, a Fortune 500 IT company, working as a trade and technology policy analyst, and was a fellow at the Information Technology Industry Council.
Evangelos holds a B.A. in Political Science from Fordham University, a M.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University, and is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/E). He is pursuing a J.D. at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School.
Senior Manager for Public Policy
Workday
John Miller, Senior Vice President of Policy and General Counsel, ITI John Miller, senior vice president of policy and general counsel, currently leads ITI’s Trust Data and Technology policy team, driving ITI’s strategy and advocacy on cybersecurity, privacy and data protection, supply chain security and resiliency, government access to data, digital platforms, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, cloud computing, and other technology and digital policy issues. As general counsel, Mr. Miller serves as ITI’s chief legal officer, leading the association’s amicus filings and advising on legal and regulatory matters. While at ITI, Miller has testified before the U.S. Congress on cybersecurity, supply chain, and privacy topics and participated as a keynote speaker or panelist at major events in the U.S., EU, Japan, India, Brazil and China.
A proven IT industry leader, Mr. Miller received the inaugural National Risk Management Center (NRMC) Partner Award for his work as Co-Chair of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency-sponsored ICT Supply Chain Risk Management Task Force, the preeminent public-private partnership in the U.S. working on supply chain issues. Mr. Miller previously served three terms as Chair of the IT Sector Coordinating Council, the principal IT sector partner on behalf of over 100 organizations to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on cybersecurity, supply chain and critical infrastructure protection policy. Mr. Miller also co-founded and launched the Council to Secure the Digital Economy, an initiative comprised of global ICT providers dedicated to enhancing the cyber resiliency of the global digital ecosystem.
Prior to ITI, Miller worked for nearly a decade in the Global Public Policy organization at member company Intel Corporation. Miller’s positions at Intel included Director of Cybersecurity Policy, Global Policy Strategist, and Director of Government Relations and Managing Counsel, leading Intel’s cybersecurity policy strategy and advocacy activities in the U.S. and spearheading Intel’s global policy strategy development and advocacy on issues including cybersecurity threat information sharing, electronic surveillance and communications privacy, development of the APEC Cross-border privacy rules, and issues at the intersection of human rights, civil liberties and technology. Earlier in his career, Miller led Intel’s privacy and security policy strategy and outreach efforts in the Asia-Pacific region.
Prior to joining Intel, Miller was an associate in private practice in New York, where he represented technology, media, and other corporate clients in a variety of complex business and intellectual property litigations and regulatory matters.
Miller received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Government from Hamilton College, summa cum laude, and a Juris Doctor from the University of Wisconsin Law School, where he served as Articles Editor of the Wisconsin Law Review.
Senior Vice President of Policy and General Counsel
ITI
Will Duffield, Policy Analyst, Cato Institute Will Duffield is a policy analyst in the Cato Institute’s Center for Representative Government, where he studies speech and internet governance. His research focuses on the web of government regulation and private rules that govern Americans’ speech online.
Policy Analyst
Cato Institute
Robert S. Litt, Of Counsel & Co-Chair, Morrison Foerster Robert S. Litt, a former official at the Justice Department and the Intelligence Community, is Of Counsel in Morrison Foerster’s National Security and Global Risk & Crisis Management practices. He advises industry-leading organizations on sensitive national security and privacy matters, white–collar investigations, and government enforcement actions.
Prior to joining Morrison Foerster, Mr. Litt was General Counsel for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), giving him a strong understanding of the intelligence community and its equities. Mr. Litt was unanimously confirmed by the Senate for this role, in which he oversaw a team of attorneys providing legal advice to the agency and led interagency national security meetings. He had previously served as Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General in the Department of Justice.
As spokesman for the intelligence community both domestically and overseas on issues relating to surveillance and privacy, Mr. Litt was a key member of the U.S. team that negotiated the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield with the European Commission. This experience uniquely positions him to advise U.S. companies on the intricacies of European privacy rules and foreign companies on U.S. privacy rules.
Of Counsel & Co-Chair
Morrison Foerster
Willmary Escoto, U.S. Policy Analyst, Access Now Willmary is a U.S. Policy Analyst for Access Now where she works on issues around content governance, privacy, artificial intelligence, and data protection. She previously served as the Director of Policy and Government Affairs for the National Hispanic Media Coalition and was hosted by Public Knowledge as a Google Policy Fellow in 2016. Willmary received her J.D. from Howard University and is licensed to practice law in Washington D.C.
U.S. Policy Analyst
Access Now
Haley Hinkle, Policy Counsel, Fairplay As policy counsel, Haley is focused on Fairplay’s work advocating for laws and regulations that protect children and teens’ autonomy and safety online. Before joining Fairplay, Haley clerked for the Hon. Robert L. Miller, Jr. in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana. During law school, Haley worked on issues at the intersection of government surveillance technology and civil liberties. Haley studied law at Indiana University – Bloomington and journalism and political science at Northwestern University.
Policy Counsel
Fairplay
Tani Olhanoski, CEO & co-founder, Mysilio Tani Olhanoski is the CEO and co-founder of Mysilio, a consulting firm dedicated to advancing new paradigms for decentralized, user-owned web platforms. They have spent the last decade building software companies and communities in the Bay Area, beginning their career in decentralized tech in 2014 as the Director of Operations for one of the first fully-compliant Bitcoin exchanges in the US, and has since gone on to spend 8+ years working at the intersection of operations, regulatory compliance, and fraud and identity systems for fintech and crypto startups. As more of our social interactions have started migrating online and the potential impact of “Web3” started to become clear, they founded Mysilio with the goal to investigate the complex intersections of governance, economics, and power dynamics that exist within our online platforms, and how we may re-build software from the ground up to truly empower users and provide a more equitable, open Web.
CEO & co-founder
Mysilio
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Shane Tews, Nonresident Senior Fellow, The American Enterprise Institute Shane Tews is a non-resident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where she works primarily on cybersecurity, technology and innovation policy, and internet governance issues. She is also president of Logan Circle Strategies, where she focuses on information and communication technology and cybersecurity policy issues including privacy, data protection, 5G next generation networking, the Internet of Things, internet governance, and digital economic policy.
She is currently vice chair of the board of directors of the Internet Education Foundation, which governs outside work for the Congressional Internet Caucus and State of the Net annual conference, The Chair of the Internet Society DC Chapter, on the board of SeedAI, and the Chairman of the board of directors of TechFreedom. She is also the Chair of the Dynamic Coalition on Internet of Things for the International Internet Governance Forum. She has previously served as co-chair of the Internet Governance Forum USA, and on the boards of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, Information Technology Industry Council, and the Global Women’s Innovation Network.
Previously, Ms. Tews managed internet security and digital commerce issues as vice president of global policy for Verisign Inc. She began her career in the George H. W. Bush White House as a deputy associate director in the Office of Cabinet Affairs, and later moved to Capitol Hill as a legislative director for a member of Congress.
Shane also hosts a podcast “Explain to Shane” on the AEI podcast channel.
Nonresident Senior Fellow
The American Enterprise Institute
Iain Corby, Executive Director, The Age Verification Providers Association ain leads the global trade body for suppliers of privacy-preserving age verification and age estimation technologies. He is the business project manager for euCONSENT, an EU-funded pilot to deliver interoperable online age checks, and is the author of an imminent IEEE international standard for age assurance. Previously he worked for GambleAware, the leading UK charity, ran a research team in Parliament, and was a management consultant with Deloitte.
He read Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Balliol College, Oxford and has an MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA.
Executive Director
The Age Verification Providers Association
Jay Banerjee, COO, ImmersiveTouch Jay is the co-founder and President of ImmersiveTouch, a pioneer in patient-specific augmented reality navigation software. He is responsible for running all facets of the business and has a proven executive management track record driving growth and innovation in healthcare. He is a leader in improving patient care and enhancing physician capabilities, an accomplished speaker, and a contributor to publications such as Forbes and Business Insider. Prior to ImmersiveTouch Jay was a project manager at JPMorgan Chase and Co. and a business consultant at Illinois Business Consulting.
Under his leadership the company has been awarded Best Simulation Company in North America by Frost & Sullivan; listed in the 34 Virtual Reality Companies to Know by Built In; featured in Healthcare Tech Outlook ‘s Top 10 Medical Imaging Solutions Providers; named one of The 7 Virtual Reality Companies to Innovate Healthcare by Medical Design and Outsourcing; listed as one of The 9 Healthcare Companies Making Innovations in Virtual Reality by Touchstone Research; and selected as one of the Top 10 Startups by HealthBox.
Jay recently completed a certification in Economics of Blockchain and Digital Assets from The Wharton school. He holds a BS in Industrial Engineering, Finance, and Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an MA in Consciousness and Human Potential from Maharishi International University.
COO
ImmersiveTouch
Sara Collins, Senior Policy Counsel, Public Knowledge Sara Collins is a Senior Policy Counsel at Public Knowledge, specializing in data protection and consumer privacy. She also provides government affairs support on a range of issues like regulating algorithms, protecting local journalism, and copyright. She currently serves as an advisory board member for the Future of Privacy Forum.
Previously, Sara was a Policy Counsel on the Future of Privacy Forum’s Education & Youth Privacy team specializing in higher education and young adult issues. She has also worked as an investigations attorney in the Enforcement Unit at Federal Student Aid, as well as the Director of Legal Services for Veterans Education Success.
Sara graduated from the Georgetown University Law Center in 2014, where she was the symposium editor of the Journal of Gender and the Law. After graduating law school, she completed a Policy & Law Fellowship at the Amara Legal Center. Originally from Chicago, Sara attended the University of Illinois, where she received a B.A. in both Political Science and English.
Senior Policy Counsel
Public Knowledge
Paul Martino, Vice President & Senior Policy Counsel, National Retail Federation Paul Martino serves as Vice President and Senior Policy Counsel at the National Retail Federation, the world’s largest retail trade association. Retail is the nation’s largest private-sector employer, contributing $3.9 trillion to annual GDP and supporting one in four U.S. jobs — 52 million working Americans. For over a century, NRF has been a voice for every retailer and every retail job, educating, inspiring and communicating the powerful impact retail has on local communities and global economies.
Martino is responsible for developing and implementing federal legislative and regulatory advocacy efforts on a range of e-commerce and consumer protection policy issues, most notably, data privacy and security. With nearly 30 years of industry, government and legal experience, Martino is known as a leading industry strategist on a range of Internet, telecommunications and technology policy issues. Before joining NRF, Martino co-chaired the privacy and data security practice of Alston & Bird LLP, representing businesses, trade associations and coalitions before Congress, federal departments and independent agencies on data privacy, cybersecurity, e-commerce, telecommunications, financial services and intellectual property issues. While in private practice, Martino was named a national leader in privacy and data security law every year from 2008 to 2014 by the leading publication ranking American business lawyers, “Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business.”
Prior to joining Alston & Bird, Martino served as a principal advisor to Chairman John McCain and the lead counsel on Internet, technology and privacy issues for the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation. He came to the Senate after beginning his career in the early 1990s advising startup and newly public technology companies on corporate and transactional matters in Silicon Valley. Martino graduated with honors from Georgetown University with a bachelor’s degree in government and earned his law degree at the University of California, Berkeley.
Vice President & Senior Policy Counsel
National Retail Federation
Ryan Nabil, Research Fellow, Competitive Enterprise Institute Ryan Nabil is a Research Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) in Washington, DC, where he researches US and European artificial intelligence, data privacy, and innovation policy. He also served as a Fox Fellow at Sciences Po Paris, where he conducted research on UK/EU foreign policy toward China and Chinese and Russian approaches to global governance. Before CEI, Ryan completed an MA in global affairs from Yale University, where he served as the Managing Editor of the Yale Journal of International Affairs and Research Fellow at Stanford US-Russia Forum. Ryan has published more than 50 articles, op-eds, and blog posts in outlets including The National Interest, The Diplomat, and The Washington Post. Ryan speaks French, German, Bengali, and intermediate Chinese and Russian.
Research Fellow
Competitive Enterprise Institute
Dan Caprio, Co-Founder, The Providence Group Dan Caprio is an internationally recognized expert on privacy and cybersecurity. He has served as the Chief Privacy Officer and Deputy Assistant Secretary at the Commerce Department, a transatlantic subject matter for the European Commission’s Internet of Things formal expert group, a Chief of Staff at the Federal Trade Commission and a member of the Department of Homeland Security Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee. In 2002, Dan represented the United States revising the OECD Security Guidelines that formed the basis for the first White House Strategy to Secure Cyberspace.
Co-Founder
The Providence Group
Jonathan Litchman, Co-Founder, The Providence Group Jonathan Litchman is a national security veteran with experience as an intelligence officer and as a staff member on the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He was also a senior executive at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) where he led efforts in software product development and consulted on information operations and strategic planning. He most recently led Edelman Public Relations’ Washington, D.C. cybersecurity policy and national security practice.
Co-Founder
The Providence Group
Jonathan Cannon, Policy Counsel, Technology and Innovation, R Street Jonathan Cannon is a policy counsel in Technology and Innovation. He researches and writes policy papers, op-eds and blog posts about significant topics related to privacy, antitrust and telecommunications; engages directly with leaders on key policy issue areas; and interacts with a range of national and local media outlets to educate and provide context on the most impactful technology and innovation policy.
Prior to R Street, Jonathan worked as an Attorney Advisor in the Office of Legislative Affairs at the Federal Communications Commission, he also served as the Acting Legal Advisor in the Office of FCC Commissioner Nathan Simington, and as an Attorney Advisor in the Wireline Competition Bureau, Pricing Policy Division.
Jonathan received his JD from the Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law, with a certificate in Law and Technology, and a BA in political science and a BS in psychology from the University of Central Florida.
He lives in Washington D.C. with his fiancée and their dog, Ellie.
Policy Counsel, Technology and Innovation
R Street
Andrew Zack, Policy Manager, Family Online Safety Institute Andrew Zack is the Policy Manager for the Family Online Safety Institute, leading policy work relating to online safety laws and regulations. He works with federal and state legislatures, relevant federal agencies, international governments, and industry leaders to develop and advance policies that promote safe and positive online experience for families. Andrew joined FOSI after five years in Senator Ed Markey’s office, where he worked primarily on education, child welfare, and disability policies. Andrew studied Government and Psychology at the College of William and Mary.
Policy Manager
Family Online Safety Institute
Data Privacy has become an increasingly pressing concern for individuals in the USA and globally these past few years, as digital technologies have proliferated throughout our lives while numerous, sometimes wide-scale, cases of data breaches and misuses have continued to make the headlines. The huge socio-economic benefits of these technologies are however manyfold, and it is therefore essential that regulation does not impede the endless opportunities they can deliver. Trust, transparency, and accountability are central to the discussions being held around data privacy in the US and will be the core themes of Forum Global’s 4th Annual Data Privacy Conference USA.
The recent circulation of the bipartisan and bicameral‘ American Data Privacy and Protection Act’ represents a significant step forward to establish national data privacy protections with the proposed law striking compromises on a series of major sticking point and being the first privacy bill to be made available for a full House vote. Time is of the essence however, to get a federal framework across the finish line during the 117th Congress. In this context, and while States legislators, the FTC and the tech industry itself continue to respond to privacy challenges, this event will gather top level US and global data privacy experts, policymakers, industry leaders and civil society to explore the US’s response to a dynamically evolving data privacy landscape.
Sessions at this event will explore how businesses and consumers can best adapt to continuously changing privacy requirements, methods and expectations ahead of the potential enactment of the ADPPA or any other future federal rulebook on privacy, will examine the inextricable link between data privacy and competition regulations in the platform economy, and will assess how synergies between different data protection regimes internationally can be developed to create a more coherent transnational approach to regulation. Specific themed sessions will debate issues relating to child privacy, lawful access to data – including but not limited to the implications of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v Wade- and the future of privacy as emerging technologies, such as AI and the metaverse, develop. A common thread throughout the discussions will explore how the ADPPA balances the protection of individuals and the promotion of positive innovation with regards to the issues covered.
While latest efforts in Congress have recently resulted in the circulation of the bipartisan and bicameral ADPPA which finds compromise on the two main stumbling blocks to a federal rulebook on privacy – time is running out for the bill to meaningfully advance this year. In the current absence of a federal privacy framework and with 5 states having already enacted their own privacy laws (and many more likely to follow suit) and as the FTC has launched proposed rule-making procedures, organizations across the country are still currently faced with obligations to comply with different competing and potentially contradictory data privacy regimes as well as with industry-specific privacy regulations. This leads to consumers’ confusion, high compliance costs and creates corporate governance challenges. In order to achieve best levels of data protection, privacy advocates argue that companies should take a more proactive stance towards data privacy now, by incorporating data security and privacy into an overall risk management framework, developing flexible compliance mechanisms and privacy-by-design strategies, as well as adopting Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs), so that they can adapt to a constantly changing regulatory environment. This session will discuss what can be done by organizations of all sizes and all sectors to prepare for future compliance. It will explore whether tools and recommendations that are being deployed are enough to give businesses and public organizations appropriate support and guidance and will also examine the impact that technology itself can have by exploring the role of PETs. Finally, it will analyze the extent to which the circulation of the American Data Privacy and Protection Act sets the stage for continued discussions on a federal privacy framework even if Congress does not act on it this session and explore what is expected next, following the FTC’s launch of their notice of potential rule-making.
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Ronnie is an attorney in the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, Division of Privacy and Identity Protection. He focuses on data privacy and security and enforcing federal consumer protection laws through conducting investigations, bringing civil enforcement actions in federal and administrative court, and policy-related work. During his time at the FTC, Ronnie has focused on a broad range of cutting-edge consumer protection and competition matters relating to emerging technologies, consumer advertising, and digital health. Before joining the FTC, Ronnie practiced in the litigation group at Fenwick & West LLP in San Francisco.
Lourdes M. Turrecha is a privacy, cybersecurity, and data protection strategist, lawyer, and leader, with 10+ years of combined experience in the areas of privacy, law, security, policy, and compliance. Turrecha also founded The Rise of Privacy Tech, an initiative with a mission to fuel privacy innovation by bringing together privacy tech founders, investors, and advisors to bridge the existing tech-capital-expertise gaps in privacy innovation. She is a Privacy Tech Advisor and Investor. She advises privacy tech startups on their privacy strategy, covering product design and market positioning in the nascent privacy tech landscape. She also helps investors develop their privacy tech theses.
Lourdes is Privacy Tech & Law Fellow and Adjunct Professor of Privacy Law at Santa Clara University School of Law’s leading privacy program, where she developed and teaches an experiential course on Privacy & Technology. She is also an Innovators Network Foundation (INF) Privacy Fellow.
Shane Tews is a non-resident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where she works primarily on cybersecurity, technology and innovation policy, and internet governance issues. She is also president of Logan Circle Strategies, where she focuses on information and communication technology and cybersecurity policy issues including privacy, data protection, 5G next generation networking, the Internet of Things, internet governance, and digital economic policy.
She is currently vice chair of the board of directors of the Internet Education Foundation, which governs outside work for the Congressional Internet Caucus and State of the Net annual conference, The Chair of the Internet Society DC Chapter, on the board of SeedAI, and the Chairman of the board of directors of TechFreedom. She is also the Chair of the Dynamic Coalition on Internet of Things for the International Internet Governance Forum. She has previously served as co-chair of the Internet Governance Forum USA, and on the boards of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, Information Technology Industry Council, and the Global Women’s Innovation Network.
Previously, Ms. Tews managed internet security and digital commerce issues as vice president of global policy for Verisign Inc. She began her career in the George H. W. Bush White House as a deputy associate director in the Office of Cabinet Affairs, and later moved to Capitol Hill as a legislative director for a member of Congress.
Shane also hosts a podcast “Explain to Shane” on the AEI podcast channel.
Sara Collins is a Senior Policy Counsel at Public Knowledge, specializing in data protection and consumer privacy. She also provides government affairs support on a range of issues like regulating algorithms, protecting local journalism, and copyright. She currently serves as an advisory board member for the Future of Privacy Forum.
Previously, Sara was a Policy Counsel on the Future of Privacy Forum’s Education & Youth Privacy team specializing in higher education and young adult issues. She has also worked as an investigations attorney in the Enforcement Unit at Federal Student Aid, as well as the Director of Legal Services for Veterans Education Success.
Sara graduated from the Georgetown University Law Center in 2014, where she was the symposium editor of the Journal of Gender and the Law. After graduating law school, she completed a Policy & Law Fellowship at the Amara Legal Center. Originally from Chicago, Sara attended the University of Illinois, where she received a B.A. in both Political Science and English.
Paul Martino serves as Vice President and Senior Policy Counsel at the National Retail Federation, the world’s largest retail trade association. Retail is the nation’s largest private-sector employer, contributing $3.9 trillion to annual GDP and supporting one in four U.S. jobs — 52 million working Americans. For over a century, NRF has been a voice for every retailer and every retail job, educating, inspiring and communicating the powerful impact retail has on local communities and global economies.
Martino is responsible for developing and implementing federal legislative and regulatory advocacy efforts on a range of e-commerce and consumer protection policy issues, most notably, data privacy and security. With nearly 30 years of industry, government and legal experience, Martino is known as a leading industry strategist on a range of Internet, telecommunications and technology policy issues. Before joining NRF, Martino co-chaired the privacy and data security practice of Alston & Bird LLP, representing businesses, trade associations and coalitions before Congress, federal departments and independent agencies on data privacy, cybersecurity, e-commerce, telecommunications, financial services and intellectual property issues. While in private practice, Martino was named a national leader in privacy and data security law every year from 2008 to 2014 by the leading publication ranking American business lawyers, “Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business.”
Prior to joining Alston & Bird, Martino served as a principal advisor to Chairman John McCain and the lead counsel on Internet, technology and privacy issues for the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation. He came to the Senate after beginning his career in the early 1990s advising startup and newly public technology companies on corporate and transactional matters in Silicon Valley. Martino graduated with honors from Georgetown University with a bachelor’s degree in government and earned his law degree at the University of California, Berkeley.
Dan Caprio is an internationally recognized expert on privacy and cybersecurity. He has served as the Chief Privacy Officer and Deputy Assistant Secretary at the Commerce Department, a transatlantic subject matter for the European Commission’s Internet of Things formal expert group, a Chief of Staff at the Federal Trade Commission and a member of the Department of Homeland Security Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee. In 2002, Dan represented the United States revising the OECD Security Guidelines that formed the basis for the first White House Strategy to Secure Cyberspace.
The collection and use of personal data are at the core of business models and innovation in today’s data economy. However, in the absence of federal data privacy rules and of common transparency requirements, individuals have limited control as to how their data is collected, used and shared. As the data explosion has largely benefited and been driven by the private sector, momentum is growing for a deeper analysis which would aim to address the emerging questions around competition, market dominance and enabling innovation to flourish.
This session will explore the complex convergence between the data privacy and competition regulatory spheres, their overlapping objectives, where these regulatory areas complement each other, and what tensions exist. It will discuss the extent to which these issues are appropriately addressed by President Biden’s Executive Order “Promoting Competition in the American Economy” from July 2021 directing the FTC to start a rulemaking process to strengthen consumers’ data privacy, by the various bills being introduced by Congress, and by industry players who continue to take further action to self-regulate by rolling out privacy-focused changes to their services.
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Maureen K. Ohlhausen chairs the antitrust group at Baker Botts LLP, where she focuses on competition, privacy and regulatory issues and frequently represents clients in the tech, life sciences, energy, and retail industries. She served as Acting FTC Chairman from January 2017 to May 2018 and as a Commissioner starting in 2012. She directed all FTC competition and consumer protection work, with a particular emphasis on privacy and technology issues. Ohlhausen has published dozens of articles on antitrust, privacy, regulation, FTC litigation, and telecommunications law issues and has testified over a dozen times before Congress. She has received numerous awards, including the FTC’s Robert Pitofsky Lifetime Achievement Award. Prior to serving as a Commissioner, Ohlhausen led the FTC’s Internet Access Task Force and headed the FTC practice group at a leading communications law firm. Ohlhausen clerked at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and received her J.D. with distinction from the George Mason University School of Law and her B.A. with honors from the University of Virginia.
George Slover is Senior Counsel for Competition Policy at the Center for Democracy and Technology, and also General Counsel. He has more than three decades of experience in antitrust and competition policy.
He came to CDT from Consumer Reports, where he was Senior Policy Counsel. Earlier in his career, he was Lead Antitrust Counsel at the House Judiciary Committee, Attorney-Advisor for Legal Policy at the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, Advisor to the Antitrust Modernization Commission, and Chief Legislative Counsel and Parliamentarian at the House Judiciary Committee. He is a member of the American Antitrust Institute’s Advisory Board, and an elected member of the American Law Institute. He holds a BA in mathematics from Vanderbilt University, a JD from the University of Texas School of Law, and a Master’s in Public Affairs from the LBJ School.
Professor Bambauer is a professor of law at the University of Arizona. She teaches and studies the fundamental problems of well-intended technology policies. Her research assesses the social costs and benefits of Big Data and how new information technologies affect free speech, privacy, and competitive markets. She also serves as the co-deputy director of the Center for Quantum Networks, a multi-institutional engineering research center funded by the National Science Foundation, where she facilitates research on economic and regulatory policy for emerging markets in quantum technologies. Her work has been featured in more than 20 scholarly publications including the Stanford Law Review, the Michigan Law Review, the California Law Review, and the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies. Her work has also been featured in media outlets including the Washington Post, the New York Times, Fox News, and Lawfare. She holds a BS in Mathematics from Yale College and a J.D. from Yale Law School.
Aaron Cooper serves as Vice President, Global Policy. In this role, Cooper leads BSA’s global policy team and contributes to the advancement of BSA members’ policy priorities around the world that affect the development of emerging technologies, including data privacy, cybersecurity, AI regulation, data flows and digital trade. He testifies before Congress and is a frequent speaker on data governance and other issues important to the software industry.
Cooper previously served as a Chief Counsel for Chairman Patrick Leahy on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, and as Legal Counsel to Senator Paul Sarbanes. Cooper came to BSA from Covington and Burling, where he was of counsel, providing strategic guidance and policy advice on a broad range of technology issues.
Cooper is a graduate of Princeton University and Vanderbilt Law School. He clerked for Judge Gerald Tjoflat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
Ryan Nabil is a Research Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) in Washington, DC, where he researches US and European artificial intelligence, data privacy, and innovation policy. He also served as a Fox Fellow at Sciences Po Paris, where he conducted research on UK/EU foreign policy toward China and Chinese and Russian approaches to global governance. Before CEI, Ryan completed an MA in global affairs from Yale University, where he served as the Managing Editor of the Yale Journal of International Affairs and Research Fellow at Stanford US-Russia Forum. Ryan has published more than 50 articles, op-eds, and blog posts in outlets including The National Interest, The Diplomat, and The Washington Post. Ryan speaks French, German, Bengali, and intermediate Chinese and Russian.
Prior to R Street, Jonathan worked as an Attorney Advisor in the Office of Legislative Affairs at the Federal Communications Commission, he also served as the Acting Legal Advisor in the Office of FCC Commissioner Nathan Simington, and as an Attorney Advisor in the Wireline Competition Bureau, Pricing Policy Division.
Jonathan received his JD from the Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law, with a certificate in Law and Technology, and a BA in political science and a BS in psychology from the University of Central Florida.
He lives in Washington D.C. with his fiancée and their dog, Ellie.
It is widely recognized that international data flows underpin the global economy; with organizations of all sizes and across all sectors relying on the free flow of data between countries and markets to improve research, provide innovative services and products across borders and to deliver socio-economic benefits. In recent years, the lack of a US Federal data privacy law along with the continued fragmentation of data protection regimes worldwide have resulted in growing levels of legal uncertainties and associated costs for organizations operating cross-borders.
In this context, this session will discuss the latest developments around the data transfers agreement that are being negotiated between the US and other regions of the world, how these fit with the overall goals of the recent Declaration on the Future of the Internet initiated by President Biden and endorsed by 60 countries, if and how regulatory convergence and synergies with like-minded partners can truly be achieved and what support, in the meantime, is available to businesses and consumers to navigate a complex global data transfer system made up of intertwined data transfer agreements. Significant focus will be given to the new Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework, which is expected to lead to a new Trans-Atlantic agreement addressing the ECJ Schrems II decision; to the Global CBPR Forum developed with APEC and other countries; and to other international efforts such as the Data Free Flow with Trust or the OECD’s work in developing multilateral models for global data flows to create trusted mechanisms and support responsible cross-border data flows across jurisdictions.
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Shannon Coe is the Director of Global Data Policy in the U.S. Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration. In this capacity, she leads a team that focuses on policy issues affecting cross border data flows that support international trade, including in multilateral fora such as APEC, the OECD, G20 and the G7. Shannon leads the U.S. delegation in the APEC Digital Economy Steering Group, has served as Chair of the APEC Data Privacy Subgroup and E-Commerce Steering Group, and oversees the U.S. efforts to implement the Cross Border Privacy Rules System and establish the Global Cross Border Privacy Rules Forum. She was a key member of the team negotiating the EU-U.S. and Swiss Privacy Shield Frameworks, led the implementation of the programs, and oversaw the first annual review. Prior to joining ITA, Shannon worked on a variety of international trade issues as an attorney at the Department of Commerce and before that was a corporate attorney in New York.
Ralf Sauer is the Deputy Head ‘International Data Flows and Protection’ in the Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers at the European Commission, the European Union’s executive arm. The department covers data flows both for commercial and law enforcement purposes. He has been one of the key negotiators of the EU-US Privacy Shield and its successor, the Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework, as well as the adequacy arrangementswith Japan and Korea. He has also led the European Commission’s work on the new model clauses for data protection contracts (Standard Contractual Clauses). At multilateral level, Ralf Sauer has represented the European Commission in the negotiations on a modernisation of Council of Europe Convention 108, the only binding global agreement on data protection, and on a Second Additional Protocol to the Cybercrime (Budapest) Convention. He regularly speaks at international conferences and panels on data protection issues. Previously, Ralf Sauer worked for almost 10 years in the European Commission’s Legal Service, among others representing the Commission before the European courts in more than 200 cases. He holds an LL.M. and doctoral degree from Yale Law School.
As Head of Division, Ms. Plonk is responsible for implementing the programme of work of two committees: the Committee on Digital Economy Policy (CDEP) and the Committee for Consumer Policy (CCP) as well as the management of STI’s Digital Economy Division. In particular, she contributes to the development of evidence-based policies through multi-stakeholder processes to i) stimulate the growth of an accessible, innovative, open, inclusive and trustworthy digital economy for sustained prosperity and well-being, and ii) provide policymakers with the tools needed to develop a forward-looking, whole-of-government policy response that leverages the potential of digitalisation for growth and well-being.
In this role, she supports the strategic work of STI the advancement of the Office of the Secretary General’s Strategic Objectives. She will also lead and contribute to related horizontal work across the Organisation.
Prior to re-joining STI, Ms Plonk was Senior Director, Global Security Policy at Intel Corporation where she was also a Senior Director for Public Policy based in Santa Clara, California. Over the course of her more than 10 years at Intel, Audrey led a global team of policy experts focused on connectivity, data, artificial intelligence and autonomous driving policy issues. She also specialized in China cyber policy and advised Intel business and product teams on China strategy. She chaired numerous industry committees including the Cybersecurity Committee at the Information Technology and Industry Council (ITI) and the Cybersecurity subcommittee of the Trans-Atlantic Business Council (TABC) and has provided testimony multiple times before the US Congress. In 2009, Ms. Plonk joined the board of The Privacy Projects and later took over Chairmanship of the not-for-profit organization focused on funding research in overlooked areas of privacy practice, policy and law. She has been a guest lecturer at The University of California Berkeley’s School of Information and has taught cyber policy courses at the US Technology Training Institute. Ms. Plonk is currently a member of the National Academies of Sciences Forum on Cyber Resilience.
In 2007, Ms. Plonk worked on digital security issues in STI including malicious software and the protection of critical information infrastructure. This was preceded by four years as a consultant at the Department of Homeland Security’s National Cyber Security Division where she led work on international cooperation in cyberspace and cybersecurity.
Ms. Plonk, an American national, holds a Bachelor’s Degree in International Affairs from The George Washington University (Washington, DC, United States).
Evangelos Razis is Senior Manager of Public Policy at Workday, where he leads U.S. policy engagement on privacy, data flows, and artificial intelligence matters.
Before joining Workday, Evangelos was at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the world’s largest business association. There he led digital trade and global data policy, including issues related to the U.S.-EU Privacy Shield, and advocated for open data governance frameworks in key U.S. export markets on six continents.
Previously, Evangelos was at Fujitsu, a Fortune 500 IT company, working as a trade and technology policy analyst, and was a fellow at the Information Technology Industry Council.
Evangelos holds a B.A. in Political Science from Fordham University, a M.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University, and is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/E). He is pursuing a J.D. at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School.
As a Director on the Global Privacy Policy team within Microsoft’s Office of Privacy & Regulatory Affairs (PRA), Matthew Reisman helps to shape Microsoft’s approach to privacy and data protection policy around the world. Matthew previously worked on Microsoft’s U.S. Government Affairs team, with a focus on digital trade policy, export controls, and supply chain policy. Prior to joining Microsoft, Matthew was a Lead International Trade Analyst at the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC), where he led research on digital trade for Congress, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), and the public. Matthew was a graduate intern in USTR’s WTO & Multilateral Affairs office and a Fulbright Student Fellow in West Africa. Matthew holds a Master’s in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School and an undergraduate degree from Duke University.
Cameron Kerry is a global thought leader on privacy and cross-border information flows. He joined Governance Studies and the Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings in December 2013 as the first Ann R. and Andrew H. Tisch Distinguished Visiting Fellow. Previously, Kerry served as general counsel and acting secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce, where he was a leader on a wide of range of issues including technology, trade, and economic growth and security. He continues to speak and write on these issues, focusing primarily on privacy and information security, along with the international digital economy. During his time as acting secretary, Kerry served as chief executive of this Cabinet agency and its 43,000 employees around the world, as well as an adviser to former President Barack Obama. His tenure marked the first time in U.S. history two siblings have served in the president’s Cabinet at the same time.
As general counsel, he was the principal legal adviser to the several Secretaries of Commerce and Commerce agency heads. As co-chair of the National Science and Technology Council Subcommittee on Privacy and Internet Policy, Kerry spearheaded development of the White House blueprint on consumer privacy, Consumer Data Privacy in a Networked World: A Framework for Protecting Privacy and Promoting Innovation in the Global Digital Economy. He then led the administration’s implementation of the blueprint, drafting privacy legislation and engaging in privacy issues with international partners, including the European Union. He was a leader in the Obama administration’s successful effort to pass the America Invents Act, the most significant overhaul of the patent system in more than 150 years. He helped establish and lead the Commerce Department’s Internet Policy Task Force, and was the department’s representative on cybersecurity issues and similar issues in the White House “Deputies Committee.” Kerry also played a significant role on intellectual property policy and litigation, cybersecurity, international bribery, trade relations and rule of law development in China, the Gulf Oil spill litigation, and many other challenges facing a large, diverse federal agency. He travelled to the People’s Republic of China on numerous occasions to co-lead the Transparency Dialogue with China as well as the U.S.-China Legal Exchange and exchanges on anti-corruption.
In addition to his Brookings affiliation, Kerry is a visiting scholar at the MIT Media Lab. He also served as senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP in Boston, Massachusetts and Washington, D.C., where his practice involved privacy, security, and international trade issues. Before Kerry’s appointment to the Obama administration in 2009, he practiced law at the Mintz Levin firm in Boston and Washington and taught telecommunications law as an adjunct professor at Suffolk University Law School. Kerry has also been actively engaged in politics and community service throughout his adult life. During the 2004 presidential campaign, he was a close adviser and national surrogate for Democratic nominee John Kerry, traveling to 29 States and even Israel. He has served on the boards of nonprofits, and is currently on the board of the National Archives Foundation.
The Ann R. and Andrew H. Tisch Distinguished Visiting Fellows in Governance Studies are individuals of particularly noteworthy distinction. The fellowship is designed to bring distinguished visitors from government, business, journalism, and academia to Brookings to write about challenges facing the country. Kerry is the first to be named to this prestigious fellowship.
Congresswoman Suzan DelBene represents Washington’s 1st Congressional District, which spans northeast King County to the Canadian border and includes parts of King, Snohomish, Skagit, and Whatcom counties.
Suzan brings a unique voice to the nation’s capital with more than two decades of experience as a successful technology entrepreneur and business leader. She takes on a wide range of challenges both in Congress and in the 1st District as a leader on issues of technology, health care, trade, taxes, environmental conservation, and agriculture, and as a champion for working families.
She currently serves as Chair of the forward-thinking New Democrat Coalition, the largest ideological caucus among House Democrats. She also serves as the Vice Chair on the House Ways and Means Committee and is on the Select Revenue Measures and Trade Subcommittees.
Suzan started her career in immunology research before earning an MBA from the University of Washington and embarking on a successful career as a technology leader and innovator. Over more than two decades as an executive and entrepreneur, she helped to start drugstore.com and served as CEO and President of Nimble Technology. Suzan also spent 12 years at Microsoft, most recently as corporate vice president of the company’s mobile communications business.
Before being elected to Congress, Suzan served as Director of the Washington State Department of Revenue.
For more than 40 years, Senator Markey has served the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as a Congressman and U.S. Senator. He has been a national leader and author of some of the most important laws in the areas of energy, the environment, and telecommunications policy. On a bipartisan basis, he has passed more than 500 pieces of legislation into law. He has been a powerful and effective voice for enhancing energy efficiency, transitioning our economy to clean and sustainable energy resources and mitigating the consequences of climate change; bolstering U.S. and global security by staunching nuclear proliferation and promoting arms control; defending human rights; enacting financial reforms to protect consumers and investors against the types of abuses that directly triggered the global recession; ensuring the continued openness of the internet; and advancing the interests of consumers by injecting competitiveness into electric, telecommunications and telephone markets, and protecting the privacy of personal information.
Senator Markey currently serves as Chair of the East Asia, the Pacific, and International Cybersecurity Policy Subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Chair of the Clean Air, Climate and Nuclear Safety Subcommittee of the Environment and Public Committee; as well as a member of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee and the Small Business Committee.
Senator Markey received his B.A. from Boston College and his J.D. from Boston College Law School. He served in the U.S. Army Reserve and two terms in the Massachusetts State House before being elected to Congress.
In his SOTU address in March 2022, President Biden called for privacy protections for children to be strengthened. While the internet offers children and teenagers a myriad of opportunities for educational, entertainment and social purposes, they have become vulnerable to a range of issues, including but not limited to, privacy infringements, commercial targeting, dark patterns and exposure to harmful content. Since the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), which governs the collection of personal information from children under 13 was last updated almost a decade ago, there has been a rapid evolution of data-enabled innovation and business practices changing the way children interact with the online world, leading to recent attempts at modernising, adapting the rules or creating new ones.
This session will explore what would constitute a proportionate response to the ongoing and persistent threats to children’s online privacy, considering the confidentiality and fundamental rights issues at stake, while ensuring the quality and variety of online products and services for children, tweens and teens. It will also debate the extent to which rules governing children’s privacy online could inform a future overall Federal Privacy framework.
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Jim Siegl, CIPT, is a Senior Technologist with the Youth & Education Privacy team. For nearly two decades prior to joining FPF, Jim was a Technology Architect for the Fairfax County Public School District with a focus on privacy, security, identity management, interoperability, and learning management systems. He was a co-author of the CoSN Privacy Toolkit and the Trusted Learning Environment (TLE) seal program and holds a Master of Science in the Management of Information Technology from the University of Virginia.
As policy counsel, Haley is focused on Fairplay’s work advocating for laws and regulations that protect children and teens’ autonomy and safety online. Before joining Fairplay, Haley clerked for the Hon. Robert L. Miller, Jr. in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana. During law school, Haley worked on issues at the intersection of government surveillance technology and civil liberties. Haley studied law at Indiana University – Bloomington and journalism and political science at Northwestern University.
As senior vice president of ESRB Privacy Certified, Stacy ensures that member companies in the video game and toy industries adopt and maintain lawful, transparent, and responsible privacy practices and policies for their websites, mobile apps, and online services. On a day-to-day basis, she provides member companies with practical advice on resolving privacy challenges arising from the constantly changing, complex global data privacy landscape. Stacy oversees compliance with ESRB’s privacy certifications, including its “Kids Certified” seal, which is an approved Safe Harbor program under the Federal Trade Commission’s Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) Rule.
Before joining ESRB, Stacy spent more than 21 years as an enforcer and regulator at the Federal Trade Commission, developing deep experience in privacy, advertising, and international issues involving consumer-facing digital technologies. As the FTC’s Assistant Director for International Consumer Protection, she served as a lead delegate to the OECD and other international organizations and coordinated with foreign consumer protection and data protection authorities on investigations and cases. Stacy was also a partner in an international litigation firm and clerked for a federal district court judge. Stacy is a graduate of Cornell University and the New York University School of Law.
Iain leads the global trade body for suppliers of privacy-preserving age verification and age estimation technologies. He is the business project manager for euCONSENT, an EU-funded pilot to deliver interoperable online age checks, and is the author of an imminent IEEE international standard for age assurance. Previously he worked for GambleAware, the leading UK charity, ran a research team in Parliament, and was a management consultant with Deloitte.
He read Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Balliol College, Oxford and has an MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA.
Andrew Zack is the Policy Manager for the Family Online Safety Institute, leading policy work relating to online safety laws and regulations. He works with federal and state legislatures, relevant federal agencies, international governments, and industry leaders to develop and advance policies that promote safe and positive online experience for families. Andrew joined FOSI after five years in Senator Ed Markey’s office, where he worked primarily on education, child welfare, and disability policies. Andrew studied Government and Psychology at the College of William and Mary.
While access to data and ‘electronic evidence’ is deemed vital to facilitate the efficient detection and investigation of crimes and illegal activities as well as the prosecution of offenders, strong data protection safeguards in the context of law enforcement are however equally crucial to guarantee respect for the rule of law, privacy, civil liberties and to ensure citizens’ trust. This session will debate how the right balance can be found between the need for law enforcement authorities to access electronic data to investigate crimes and protect national security with the need to protect citizens’ privacy, civil liberties, and fundamental rights against abuses.
In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade reversal and as most digital products have become tracking devices storing information about our movements, searches and communications data that can serve as evidence, it will discuss how important it is for legislators to factor data privacy concerns post-Roe into negotiations over the ADPPA and other proposed federal privacy bills. It will examine the opportunities and challenges brought by the uses of intelligent tech, such as Artificial Intelligence, biometric data and location tracking, for the detection and investigation of illegal activities. Speakers will examine best practices that have been identified for the promotion of privacy protection and transparency in connection with law enforcement activities and will debate the encryption conundrum. They will also explore how cooperation between law enforcement agencies, the judiciary, tech organizations and other stakeholders can concretely be enhanced, both at US level and with international partners, while supporting individuals’ fundamental rights.
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Peter A. Winn currently serves as the Acting Chief Privacy and Civil Liberties Officer (CPCLO) of the United States Department of Justice.
The CPCLO is responsible for ensuring the Department’s compliance with the laws, regulations and established policies designed to protect the privacy of individuals, as well as ensuring that concerns about privacy and civil liberties are appropriately considered in the development and implementation of laws, regulations and policies related to the Department’s mission. The Department of Justice Office of Privacy and Civil Liberties consists of a team of specialized attorneys and privacy professionals dedicated to carrying out the responsibilities of the CPCLO. Mr. Winn has served as the Acting CPCLO of the Department since January 2017.
Prior to becoming the Acting CPCLO, Mr. Winn served for nearly 20 years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney (AUSA) in the Western District of Washington and the Northern District of Texas. In 2014, he served a detail to the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board where he was its Acting General Counsel during its review of the National Security Agency programs that were the subject of the Edward Snowden disclosures. From 2010 to 2012, he served a detail to the Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel, where he was an attorney-advisor. Before joining the Department of Justice as an AUSA, he was a Special Assistant Attorney General for the Attorney General of Texas, and an associate at Carrington, Coleman in Dallas, and Patterson, Belknap in New York. He clerked for James B. McMillan, in the Western District of North Carolina.
Mr. Winn has taught as an adjunct professor at the school of law at University of Washington, at Southern Methodist University, and at the University of Melbourne. He has published articles on the Fourth Amendment, computer security, health privacy, and the right of access to public court records. He received his J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1986, an MPhil in Philosophy from the University of London where he was a Marshall Scholar, and a B.A. magna cum laude from Williams College. As a young child, he grew up in Myanmar (then known as Burma), where his parents were Christian missionaries.
Willmary is a U.S. Policy Analyst for Access Now where she works on issues around content governance, privacy, artificial intelligence, and data protection. She previously served as the Director of Policy and Government Affairs for the National Hispanic Media Coalition and was hosted by Public Knowledge as a Google Policy Fellow in 2016. Willmary received her J.D. from Howard University and is licensed to practice law in Washington D.C.
John Miller, senior vice president of policy and general counsel, currently leads ITI’s Trust Data and Technology policy team, driving ITI’s strategy and advocacy on cybersecurity, privacy and data protection, supply chain security and resiliency, government access to data, digital platforms, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, cloud computing, and other technology and digital policy issues. As general counsel, Mr. Miller serves as ITI’s chief legal officer, leading the association’s amicus filings and advising on legal and regulatory matters. While at ITI, Miller has testified before the U.S. Congress on cybersecurity, supply chain, and privacy topics and participated as a keynote speaker or panelist at major events in the U.S., EU, Japan, India, Brazil and China.
A proven IT industry leader, Mr. Miller received the inaugural National Risk Management Center (NRMC) Partner Award for his work as Co-Chair of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency-sponsored ICT Supply Chain Risk Management Task Force, the preeminent public-private partnership in the U.S. working on supply chain issues. Mr. Miller previously served three terms as Chair of the IT Sector Coordinating Council, the principal IT sector partner on behalf of over 100 organizations to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on cybersecurity, supply chain and critical infrastructure protection policy. Mr. Miller also co-founded and launched the Council to Secure the Digital Economy, an initiative comprised of global ICT providers dedicated to enhancing the cyber resiliency of the global digital ecosystem.
Prior to ITI, Miller worked for nearly a decade in the Global Public Policy organization at member company Intel Corporation. Miller’s positions at Intel included Director of Cybersecurity Policy, Global Policy Strategist, and Director of Government Relations and Managing Counsel, leading Intel’s cybersecurity policy strategy and advocacy activities in the U.S. and spearheading Intel’s global policy strategy development and advocacy on issues including cybersecurity threat information sharing, electronic surveillance and communications privacy, development of the APEC Cross-border privacy rules, and issues at the intersection of human rights, civil liberties and technology. Earlier in his career, Miller led Intel’s privacy and security policy strategy and outreach efforts in the Asia-Pacific region.
Prior to joining Intel, Miller was an associate in private practice in New York, where he represented technology, media, and other corporate clients in a variety of complex business and intellectual property litigations and regulatory matters.
Miller received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Government from Hamilton College, summa cum laude, and a Juris Doctor from the University of Wisconsin Law School, where he served as Articles Editor of the Wisconsin Law Review.
Dan Caprio is an internationally recognized expert on privacy and cybersecurity. He has served as the Chief Privacy Officer and Deputy Assistant Secretary at the Commerce Department, a transatlantic subject matter for the European Commission’s Internet of Things formal expert group, a Chief of Staff at the Federal Trade Commission and a member of the Department of Homeland Security Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee. In 2002, Dan represented the United States revising the OECD Security Guidelines that formed the basis for the first White House Strategy to Secure Cyberspace.
Robert S. Litt, a former official at the Justice Department and the Intelligence Community, is Of Counsel in Morrison Foerster’s National Security and Global Risk & Crisis Management practices. He advises industry-leading organizations on sensitive national security and privacy matters, white-collar investigations, and government enforcement actions.
Prior to joining Morrison Foerster, Mr. Litt was General Counsel for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), giving him a strong understanding of the intelligence community and its equities. Mr. Litt was unanimously confirmed by the Senate for this role, in which he oversaw a team of attorneys providing legal advice to the agency and led interagency national security meetings. He had previously served as Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General in the Department of Justice.
As spokesman for the intelligence community both domestically and overseas on issues relating to surveillance and privacy, Mr. Litt was a key member of the U.S. team that negotiated the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield with the European Commission. This experience uniquely positions him to advise U.S. companies on the intricacies of European privacy rules and foreign companies on U.S. privacy rules.
By creating an immersive digital universe where users can socialize, undertake collaborative work, shop, travel and attend cultural activities, the metaverse has the potential to unleash an exciting and inclusive new world of enriching experiences and innovative business opportunities. Combining virtual elements with physical space in real time and powered by data-intensive technologies, this hybrid reality can be highly personalized. Cameras, sensors, biometric and haptic technologies in combination with the use of AI will vastly increase the amount of data collected and used to monitor habits, preferences and even physiological responses allowing organizations to gain deeper insights and understanding of users’ behaviors to tailor experiences and products in an extraordinarily targeted way. The concept of data privacy in this hybrid context takes on another dimension with many questions regarding this continuous, in-real time data-collection arising.
This session will analyze the security risks and privacy concerns that are expected to be amplified in the metaverse, and how these concerns are being addressed by or diverge from existing policy and regulations about data and consumer protection. It will also ask how this emerging technology could impact our social and legal understandings of privacy and alter the concept of a ‘Redefining Reasonable Expectations of Privacy’ which is tied to Fourth Amendment protections in the US. Comparing the centralized and decentralized metaverses, it will explore the benefits and risks associated with each model and will consider what privacy might look like in either case. Finally, the discussion will focus on the role of self-regulation, collaboration and standard-setting activities to address privacy issues before the adoption of the technology by individuals, businesses and government becomes more widespread.
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Lindsey Barrett is a Telecommunications Policy Analyst at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, where she focuses on internet policy. Her experience in technology policy includes developing and co-teaching the Technology Law & Policy Investigations Practicum at Georgetown Law, advocating for public interest clients in technology policy matters as a teaching fellow and staff attorney at Georgetown’s Communications & Technology Law Clinic, and numerous publications on consumer privacy and the Fourth Amendment in law journals and in popular press. She received her B.A. from Duke cum laude, and both an LL.M. in advocacy with distinction and her law degree from Georgetown.
Will Duffield is a policy analyst in the Cato Institute’s Center for Representative Government, where he studies speech and internet governance. His research focuses on the web of government regulation and private rules that govern Americans’ speech online.
Tani Olhanoski is the CEO and co-founder of Mysilio, a consulting firm dedicated to advancing new paradigms for decentralized, user-owned web platforms. They have spent the last decade building software companies and communities in the Bay Area, beginning their career in decentralized tech in 2014 as the Director of Operations for one of the first fully-compliant Bitcoin exchanges in the US, and has since gone on to spend 8+ years working at the intersection of operations, regulatory compliance, and fraud and identity systems for fintech and crypto startups. As more of our social interactions have started migrating online and the potential impact of “Web3” started to become clear, they founded Mysilio with the goal to investigate the complex intersections of governance, economics, and power dynamics that exist within our online platforms, and how we may re-build software from the ground up to truly empower users and provide a more equitable, open Web.
Jay is the co-founder and President of ImmersiveTouch, a pioneer in patient-specific augmented reality navigation software. He is responsible for running all facets of the business and has a proven executive management track record driving growth and innovation in healthcare. He is a leader in improving patient care and enhancing physician capabilities, an accomplished speaker, and a contributor to publications such as Forbes and Business Insider. Prior to ImmersiveTouch Jay was a project manager at JPMorgan Chase and Co. and a business consultant at Illinois Business Consulting.
Under his leadership the company has been awarded Best Simulation Company in North America by Frost & Sullivan; listed in the 34 Virtual Reality Companies to Know by Built In; featured in Healthcare Tech Outlook ‘s Top 10 Medical Imaging Solutions Providers; named one of The 7 Virtual Reality Companies to Innovate Healthcare by Medical Design and Outsourcing; listed as one of The 9 Healthcare Companies Making Innovations in Virtual Reality by Touchstone Research; and selected as one of the Top 10 Startups by HealthBox.
Jay recently completed a certification in Economics of Blockchain and Digital Assets from The Wharton school. He holds a BS in Industrial Engineering, Finance, and Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an MA in Consciousness and Human Potential from Maharishi International University.
Jonathan Litchman is a national security veteran with experience as an intelligence officer and as a staff member on the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He was also a senior executive at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) where he led efforts in software product development and consulted on information operations and strategic planning. He most recently led Edelman Public Relations’ Washington, D.C. cybersecurity policy and national security practice.
While latest efforts in Congress have recently resulted in the circulation of the bipartisan and bicameral ADPPA which finds compromise on the two main stumbling blocks to a federal rulebook on privacy – time is running out for the bill to meaningfully advance this year. In the current absence of a federal privacy framework and with 5 states having already enacted their own privacy laws (and many more likely to follow suit) and as the FTC has launched proposed rule-making procedures, organizations across the country are still currently faced with obligations to comply with different competing and potentially contradictory data privacy regimes as well as with industry-specific privacy regulations. This leads to consumers’ confusion, high compliance costs and creates corporate governance challenges. In order to achieve best levels of data protection, privacy advocates argue that companies should take a more proactive stance towards data privacy now, by incorporating data security and privacy into an overall risk management framework, developing flexible compliance mechanisms and privacy-by-design strategies, as well as adopting Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs), so that they can adapt to a constantly changing regulatory environment. This session will discuss what can be done by organizations of all sizes and all sectors to prepare for future compliance. It will explore whether tools and recommendations that are being deployed are enough to give businesses and public organizations appropriate support and guidance and will also examine the impact that technology itself can have by exploring the role of PETs. Finally, it will analyze the extent to which the circulation of the American Data Privacy and Protection Act sets the stage for continued discussions on a federal privacy framework even if Congress does not act on it this session and explore what is expected next, following the FTC’s launch of their notice of potential rule-making.
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Ronnie is an attorney in the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, Division of Privacy and Identity Protection. He focuses on data privacy and security and enforcing federal consumer protection laws through conducting investigations, bringing civil enforcement actions in federal and administrative court, and policy-related work. During his time at the FTC, Ronnie has focused on a broad range of cutting-edge consumer protection and competition matters relating to emerging technologies, consumer advertising, and digital health. Before joining the FTC, Ronnie practiced in the litigation group at Fenwick & West LLP in San Francisco.
Lourdes M. Turrecha is a privacy, cybersecurity, and data protection strategist, lawyer, and leader, with 10+ years of combined experience in the areas of privacy, law, security, policy, and compliance. Turrecha also founded The Rise of Privacy Tech, an initiative with a mission to fuel privacy innovation by bringing together privacy tech founders, investors, and advisors to bridge the existing tech-capital-expertise gaps in privacy innovation. She is a Privacy Tech Advisor and Investor. She advises privacy tech startups on their privacy strategy, covering product design and market positioning in the nascent privacy tech landscape. She also helps investors develop their privacy tech theses.
Lourdes is Privacy Tech & Law Fellow and Adjunct Professor of Privacy Law at Santa Clara University School of Law’s leading privacy program, where she developed and teaches an experiential course on Privacy & Technology. She is also an Innovators Network Foundation (INF) Privacy Fellow.
Shane Tews is a non-resident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where she works primarily on cybersecurity, technology and innovation policy, and internet governance issues. She is also president of Logan Circle Strategies, where she focuses on information and communication technology and cybersecurity policy issues including privacy, data protection, 5G next generation networking, the Internet of Things, internet governance, and digital economic policy.
She is currently vice chair of the board of directors of the Internet Education Foundation, which governs outside work for the Congressional Internet Caucus and State of the Net annual conference, The Chair of the Internet Society DC Chapter, on the board of SeedAI, and the Chairman of the board of directors of TechFreedom. She is also the Chair of the Dynamic Coalition on Internet of Things for the International Internet Governance Forum. She has previously served as co-chair of the Internet Governance Forum USA, and on the boards of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, Information Technology Industry Council, and the Global Women’s Innovation Network.
Previously, Ms. Tews managed internet security and digital commerce issues as vice president of global policy for Verisign Inc. She began her career in the George H. W. Bush White House as a deputy associate director in the Office of Cabinet Affairs, and later moved to Capitol Hill as a legislative director for a member of Congress.
Shane also hosts a podcast “Explain to Shane” on the AEI podcast channel.
Sara Collins is a Senior Policy Counsel at Public Knowledge, specializing in data protection and consumer privacy. She also provides government affairs support on a range of issues like regulating algorithms, protecting local journalism, and copyright. She currently serves as an advisory board member for the Future of Privacy Forum.
Previously, Sara was a Policy Counsel on the Future of Privacy Forum’s Education & Youth Privacy team specializing in higher education and young adult issues. She has also worked as an investigations attorney in the Enforcement Unit at Federal Student Aid, as well as the Director of Legal Services for Veterans Education Success.
Sara graduated from the Georgetown University Law Center in 2014, where she was the symposium editor of the Journal of Gender and the Law. After graduating law school, she completed a Policy & Law Fellowship at the Amara Legal Center. Originally from Chicago, Sara attended the University of Illinois, where she received a B.A. in both Political Science and English.
Paul Martino serves as Vice President and Senior Policy Counsel at the National Retail Federation, the world’s largest retail trade association. Retail is the nation’s largest private-sector employer, contributing $3.9 trillion to annual GDP and supporting one in four U.S. jobs — 52 million working Americans. For over a century, NRF has been a voice for every retailer and every retail job, educating, inspiring and communicating the powerful impact retail has on local communities and global economies.
Martino is responsible for developing and implementing federal legislative and regulatory advocacy efforts on a range of e-commerce and consumer protection policy issues, most notably, data privacy and security. With nearly 30 years of industry, government and legal experience, Martino is known as a leading industry strategist on a range of Internet, telecommunications and technology policy issues. Before joining NRF, Martino co-chaired the privacy and data security practice of Alston & Bird LLP, representing businesses, trade associations and coalitions before Congress, federal departments and independent agencies on data privacy, cybersecurity, e-commerce, telecommunications, financial services and intellectual property issues. While in private practice, Martino was named a national leader in privacy and data security law every year from 2008 to 2014 by the leading publication ranking American business lawyers, “Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business.”
Prior to joining Alston & Bird, Martino served as a principal advisor to Chairman John McCain and the lead counsel on Internet, technology and privacy issues for the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation. He came to the Senate after beginning his career in the early 1990s advising startup and newly public technology companies on corporate and transactional matters in Silicon Valley. Martino graduated with honors from Georgetown University with a bachelor’s degree in government and earned his law degree at the University of California, Berkeley.
Dan Caprio is an internationally recognized expert on privacy and cybersecurity. He has served as the Chief Privacy Officer and Deputy Assistant Secretary at the Commerce Department, a transatlantic subject matter for the European Commission’s Internet of Things formal expert group, a Chief of Staff at the Federal Trade Commission and a member of the Department of Homeland Security Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee. In 2002, Dan represented the United States revising the OECD Security Guidelines that formed the basis for the first White House Strategy to Secure Cyberspace.
The collection and use of personal data are at the core of business models and innovation in today’s data economy. However, in the absence of federal data privacy rules and of common transparency requirements, individuals have limited control as to how their data is collected, used and shared. As the data explosion has largely benefited and been driven by the private sector, momentum is growing for a deeper analysis which would aim to address the emerging questions around competition, market dominance and enabling innovation to flourish.
This session will explore the complex convergence between the data privacy and competition regulatory spheres, their overlapping objectives, where these regulatory areas complement each other, and what tensions exist. It will discuss the extent to which these issues are appropriately addressed by President Biden’s Executive Order “Promoting Competition in the American Economy” from July 2021 directing the FTC to start a rulemaking process to strengthen consumers’ data privacy, by the various bills being introduced by Congress, and by industry players who continue to take further action to self-regulate by rolling out privacy-focused changes to their services.
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Maureen K. Ohlhausen chairs the antitrust group at Baker Botts LLP, where she focuses on competition, privacy and regulatory issues and frequently represents clients in the tech, life sciences, energy, and retail industries. She served as Acting FTC Chairman from January 2017 to May 2018 and as a Commissioner starting in 2012. She directed all FTC competition and consumer protection work, with a particular emphasis on privacy and technology issues. Ohlhausen has published dozens of articles on antitrust, privacy, regulation, FTC litigation, and telecommunications law issues and has testified over a dozen times before Congress. She has received numerous awards, including the FTC’s Robert Pitofsky Lifetime Achievement Award. Prior to serving as a Commissioner, Ohlhausen led the FTC’s Internet Access Task Force and headed the FTC practice group at a leading communications law firm. Ohlhausen clerked at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and received her J.D. with distinction from the George Mason University School of Law and her B.A. with honors from the University of Virginia.
George Slover is Senior Counsel for Competition Policy at the Center for Democracy and Technology, and also General Counsel. He has more than three decades of experience in antitrust and competition policy.
He came to CDT from Consumer Reports, where he was Senior Policy Counsel. Earlier in his career, he was Lead Antitrust Counsel at the House Judiciary Committee, Attorney-Advisor for Legal Policy at the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, Advisor to the Antitrust Modernization Commission, and Chief Legislative Counsel and Parliamentarian at the House Judiciary Committee. He is a member of the American Antitrust Institute’s Advisory Board, and an elected member of the American Law Institute. He holds a BA in mathematics from Vanderbilt University, a JD from the University of Texas School of Law, and a Master’s in Public Affairs from the LBJ School.
Professor Bambauer is a professor of law at the University of Arizona. She teaches and studies the fundamental problems of well-intended technology policies. Her research assesses the social costs and benefits of Big Data and how new information technologies affect free speech, privacy, and competitive markets. She also serves as the co-deputy director of the Center for Quantum Networks, a multi-institutional engineering research center funded by the National Science Foundation, where she facilitates research on economic and regulatory policy for emerging markets in quantum technologies. Her work has been featured in more than 20 scholarly publications including the Stanford Law Review, the Michigan Law Review, the California Law Review, and the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies. Her work has also been featured in media outlets including the Washington Post, the New York Times, Fox News, and Lawfare. She holds a BS in Mathematics from Yale College and a J.D. from Yale Law School.
Aaron Cooper serves as Vice President, Global Policy. In this role, Cooper leads BSA’s global policy team and contributes to the advancement of BSA members’ policy priorities around the world that affect the development of emerging technologies, including data privacy, cybersecurity, AI regulation, data flows and digital trade. He testifies before Congress and is a frequent speaker on data governance and other issues important to the software industry.
Cooper previously served as a Chief Counsel for Chairman Patrick Leahy on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, and as Legal Counsel to Senator Paul Sarbanes. Cooper came to BSA from Covington and Burling, where he was of counsel, providing strategic guidance and policy advice on a broad range of technology issues.
Cooper is a graduate of Princeton University and Vanderbilt Law School. He clerked for Judge Gerald Tjoflat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
Ryan Nabil is a Research Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) in Washington, DC, where he researches US and European artificial intelligence, data privacy, and innovation policy. He also served as a Fox Fellow at Sciences Po Paris, where he conducted research on UK/EU foreign policy toward China and Chinese and Russian approaches to global governance. Before CEI, Ryan completed an MA in global affairs from Yale University, where he served as the Managing Editor of the Yale Journal of International Affairs and Research Fellow at Stanford US-Russia Forum. Ryan has published more than 50 articles, op-eds, and blog posts in outlets including The National Interest, The Diplomat, and The Washington Post. Ryan speaks French, German, Bengali, and intermediate Chinese and Russian.
Prior to R Street, Jonathan worked as an Attorney Advisor in the Office of Legislative Affairs at the Federal Communications Commission, he also served as the Acting Legal Advisor in the Office of FCC Commissioner Nathan Simington, and as an Attorney Advisor in the Wireline Competition Bureau, Pricing Policy Division.
Jonathan received his JD from the Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law, with a certificate in Law and Technology, and a BA in political science and a BS in psychology from the University of Central Florida.
He lives in Washington D.C. with his fiancée and their dog, Ellie.
It is widely recognized that international data flows underpin the global economy; with organizations of all sizes and across all sectors relying on the free flow of data between countries and markets to improve research, provide innovative services and products across borders and to deliver socio-economic benefits. In recent years, the lack of a US Federal data privacy law along with the continued fragmentation of data protection regimes worldwide have resulted in growing levels of legal uncertainties and associated costs for organizations operating cross-borders.
In this context, this session will discuss the latest developments around the data transfers agreement that are being negotiated between the US and other regions of the world, how these fit with the overall goals of the recent Declaration on the Future of the Internet initiated by President Biden and endorsed by 60 countries, if and how regulatory convergence and synergies with like-minded partners can truly be achieved and what support, in the meantime, is available to businesses and consumers to navigate a complex global data transfer system made up of intertwined data transfer agreements. Significant focus will be given to the new Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework, which is expected to lead to a new Trans-Atlantic agreement addressing the ECJ Schrems II decision; to the Global CBPR Forum developed with APEC and other countries; and to other international efforts such as the Data Free Flow with Trust or the OECD’s work in developing multilateral models for global data flows to create trusted mechanisms and support responsible cross-border data flows across jurisdictions.
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Shannon Coe is the Director of Global Data Policy in the U.S. Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration. In this capacity, she leads a team that focuses on policy issues affecting cross border data flows that support international trade, including in multilateral fora such as APEC, the OECD, G20 and the G7. Shannon leads the U.S. delegation in the APEC Digital Economy Steering Group, has served as Chair of the APEC Data Privacy Subgroup and E-Commerce Steering Group, and oversees the U.S. efforts to implement the Cross Border Privacy Rules System and establish the Global Cross Border Privacy Rules Forum. She was a key member of the team negotiating the EU-U.S. and Swiss Privacy Shield Frameworks, led the implementation of the programs, and oversaw the first annual review. Prior to joining ITA, Shannon worked on a variety of international trade issues as an attorney at the Department of Commerce and before that was a corporate attorney in New York.
Ralf Sauer is the Deputy Head ‘International Data Flows and Protection’ in the Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers at the European Commission, the European Union’s executive arm. The department covers data flows both for commercial and law enforcement purposes. He has been one of the key negotiators of the EU-US Privacy Shield and its successor, the Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework, as well as the adequacy arrangementswith Japan and Korea. He has also led the European Commission’s work on the new model clauses for data protection contracts (Standard Contractual Clauses). At multilateral level, Ralf Sauer has represented the European Commission in the negotiations on a modernisation of Council of Europe Convention 108, the only binding global agreement on data protection, and on a Second Additional Protocol to the Cybercrime (Budapest) Convention. He regularly speaks at international conferences and panels on data protection issues. Previously, Ralf Sauer worked for almost 10 years in the European Commission’s Legal Service, among others representing the Commission before the European courts in more than 200 cases. He holds an LL.M. and doctoral degree from Yale Law School.
As Head of Division, Ms. Plonk is responsible for implementing the programme of work of two committees: the Committee on Digital Economy Policy (CDEP) and the Committee for Consumer Policy (CCP) as well as the management of STI’s Digital Economy Division. In particular, she contributes to the development of evidence-based policies through multi-stakeholder processes to i) stimulate the growth of an accessible, innovative, open, inclusive and trustworthy digital economy for sustained prosperity and well-being, and ii) provide policymakers with the tools needed to develop a forward-looking, whole-of-government policy response that leverages the potential of digitalisation for growth and well-being.
In this role, she supports the strategic work of STI the advancement of the Office of the Secretary General’s Strategic Objectives. She will also lead and contribute to related horizontal work across the Organisation.
Prior to re-joining STI, Ms Plonk was Senior Director, Global Security Policy at Intel Corporation where she was also a Senior Director for Public Policy based in Santa Clara, California. Over the course of her more than 10 years at Intel, Audrey led a global team of policy experts focused on connectivity, data, artificial intelligence and autonomous driving policy issues. She also specialized in China cyber policy and advised Intel business and product teams on China strategy. She chaired numerous industry committees including the Cybersecurity Committee at the Information Technology and Industry Council (ITI) and the Cybersecurity subcommittee of the Trans-Atlantic Business Council (TABC) and has provided testimony multiple times before the US Congress. In 2009, Ms. Plonk joined the board of The Privacy Projects and later took over Chairmanship of the not-for-profit organization focused on funding research in overlooked areas of privacy practice, policy and law. She has been a guest lecturer at The University of California Berkeley’s School of Information and has taught cyber policy courses at the US Technology Training Institute. Ms. Plonk is currently a member of the National Academies of Sciences Forum on Cyber Resilience.
In 2007, Ms. Plonk worked on digital security issues in STI including malicious software and the protection of critical information infrastructure. This was preceded by four years as a consultant at the Department of Homeland Security’s National Cyber Security Division where she led work on international cooperation in cyberspace and cybersecurity.
Ms. Plonk, an American national, holds a Bachelor’s Degree in International Affairs from The George Washington University (Washington, DC, United States).
Evangelos Razis is Senior Manager of Public Policy at Workday, where he leads U.S. policy engagement on privacy, data flows, and artificial intelligence matters.
Before joining Workday, Evangelos was at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the world’s largest business association. There he led digital trade and global data policy, including issues related to the U.S.-EU Privacy Shield, and advocated for open data governance frameworks in key U.S. export markets on six continents.
Previously, Evangelos was at Fujitsu, a Fortune 500 IT company, working as a trade and technology policy analyst, and was a fellow at the Information Technology Industry Council.
Evangelos holds a B.A. in Political Science from Fordham University, a M.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University, and is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/E). He is pursuing a J.D. at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School.
As a Director on the Global Privacy Policy team within Microsoft’s Office of Privacy & Regulatory Affairs (PRA), Matthew Reisman helps to shape Microsoft’s approach to privacy and data protection policy around the world. Matthew previously worked on Microsoft’s U.S. Government Affairs team, with a focus on digital trade policy, export controls, and supply chain policy. Prior to joining Microsoft, Matthew was a Lead International Trade Analyst at the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC), where he led research on digital trade for Congress, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), and the public. Matthew was a graduate intern in USTR’s WTO & Multilateral Affairs office and a Fulbright Student Fellow in West Africa. Matthew holds a Master’s in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School and an undergraduate degree from Duke University.
Cameron Kerry is a global thought leader on privacy and cross-border information flows. He joined Governance Studies and the Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings in December 2013 as the first Ann R. and Andrew H. Tisch Distinguished Visiting Fellow. Previously, Kerry served as general counsel and acting secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce, where he was a leader on a wide of range of issues including technology, trade, and economic growth and security. He continues to speak and write on these issues, focusing primarily on privacy and information security, along with the international digital economy. During his time as acting secretary, Kerry served as chief executive of this Cabinet agency and its 43,000 employees around the world, as well as an adviser to former President Barack Obama. His tenure marked the first time in U.S. history two siblings have served in the president’s Cabinet at the same time.
As general counsel, he was the principal legal adviser to the several Secretaries of Commerce and Commerce agency heads. As co-chair of the National Science and Technology Council Subcommittee on Privacy and Internet Policy, Kerry spearheaded development of the White House blueprint on consumer privacy, Consumer Data Privacy in a Networked World: A Framework for Protecting Privacy and Promoting Innovation in the Global Digital Economy. He then led the administration’s implementation of the blueprint, drafting privacy legislation and engaging in privacy issues with international partners, including the European Union. He was a leader in the Obama administration’s successful effort to pass the America Invents Act, the most significant overhaul of the patent system in more than 150 years. He helped establish and lead the Commerce Department’s Internet Policy Task Force, and was the department’s representative on cybersecurity issues and similar issues in the White House “Deputies Committee.” Kerry also played a significant role on intellectual property policy and litigation, cybersecurity, international bribery, trade relations and rule of law development in China, the Gulf Oil spill litigation, and many other challenges facing a large, diverse federal agency. He travelled to the People’s Republic of China on numerous occasions to co-lead the Transparency Dialogue with China as well as the U.S.-China Legal Exchange and exchanges on anti-corruption.
In addition to his Brookings affiliation, Kerry is a visiting scholar at the MIT Media Lab. He also served as senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP in Boston, Massachusetts and Washington, D.C., where his practice involved privacy, security, and international trade issues. Before Kerry’s appointment to the Obama administration in 2009, he practiced law at the Mintz Levin firm in Boston and Washington and taught telecommunications law as an adjunct professor at Suffolk University Law School. Kerry has also been actively engaged in politics and community service throughout his adult life. During the 2004 presidential campaign, he was a close adviser and national surrogate for Democratic nominee John Kerry, traveling to 29 States and even Israel. He has served on the boards of nonprofits, and is currently on the board of the National Archives Foundation.
The Ann R. and Andrew H. Tisch Distinguished Visiting Fellows in Governance Studies are individuals of particularly noteworthy distinction. The fellowship is designed to bring distinguished visitors from government, business, journalism, and academia to Brookings to write about challenges facing the country. Kerry is the first to be named to this prestigious fellowship.
Congresswoman Suzan DelBene represents Washington’s 1st Congressional District, which spans northeast King County to the Canadian border and includes parts of King, Snohomish, Skagit, and Whatcom counties.
Suzan brings a unique voice to the nation’s capital with more than two decades of experience as a successful technology entrepreneur and business leader. She takes on a wide range of challenges both in Congress and in the 1st District as a leader on issues of technology, health care, trade, taxes, environmental conservation, and agriculture, and as a champion for working families.
She currently serves as Chair of the forward-thinking New Democrat Coalition, the largest ideological caucus among House Democrats. She also serves as the Vice Chair on the House Ways and Means Committee and is on the Select Revenue Measures and Trade Subcommittees.
Suzan started her career in immunology research before earning an MBA from the University of Washington and embarking on a successful career as a technology leader and innovator. Over more than two decades as an executive and entrepreneur, she helped to start drugstore.com and served as CEO and President of Nimble Technology. Suzan also spent 12 years at Microsoft, most recently as corporate vice president of the company’s mobile communications business.
Before being elected to Congress, Suzan served as Director of the Washington State Department of Revenue.
For more than 40 years, Senator Markey has served the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as a Congressman and U.S. Senator. He has been a national leader and author of some of the most important laws in the areas of energy, the environment, and telecommunications policy. On a bipartisan basis, he has passed more than 500 pieces of legislation into law. He has been a powerful and effective voice for enhancing energy efficiency, transitioning our economy to clean and sustainable energy resources and mitigating the consequences of climate change; bolstering U.S. and global security by staunching nuclear proliferation and promoting arms control; defending human rights; enacting financial reforms to protect consumers and investors against the types of abuses that directly triggered the global recession; ensuring the continued openness of the internet; and advancing the interests of consumers by injecting competitiveness into electric, telecommunications and telephone markets, and protecting the privacy of personal information.
Senator Markey currently serves as Chair of the East Asia, the Pacific, and International Cybersecurity Policy Subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Chair of the Clean Air, Climate and Nuclear Safety Subcommittee of the Environment and Public Committee; as well as a member of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee and the Small Business Committee.
Senator Markey received his B.A. from Boston College and his J.D. from Boston College Law School. He served in the U.S. Army Reserve and two terms in the Massachusetts State House before being elected to Congress.
In his SOTU address in March 2022, President Biden called for privacy protections for children to be strengthened. While the internet offers children and teenagers a myriad of opportunities for educational, entertainment and social purposes, they have become vulnerable to a range of issues, including but not limited to, privacy infringements, commercial targeting, dark patterns and exposure to harmful content. Since the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), which governs the collection of personal information from children under 13 was last updated almost a decade ago, there has been a rapid evolution of data-enabled innovation and business practices changing the way children interact with the online world, leading to recent attempts at modernising, adapting the rules or creating new ones.
This session will explore what would constitute a proportionate response to the ongoing and persistent threats to children’s online privacy, considering the confidentiality and fundamental rights issues at stake, while ensuring the quality and variety of online products and services for children, tweens and teens. It will also debate the extent to which rules governing children’s privacy online could inform a future overall Federal Privacy framework.
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Jim Siegl, CIPT, is a Senior Technologist with the Youth & Education Privacy team. For nearly two decades prior to joining FPF, Jim was a Technology Architect for the Fairfax County Public School District with a focus on privacy, security, identity management, interoperability, and learning management systems. He was a co-author of the CoSN Privacy Toolkit and the Trusted Learning Environment (TLE) seal program and holds a Master of Science in the Management of Information Technology from the University of Virginia.
As policy counsel, Haley is focused on Fairplay’s work advocating for laws and regulations that protect children and teens’ autonomy and safety online. Before joining Fairplay, Haley clerked for the Hon. Robert L. Miller, Jr. in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana. During law school, Haley worked on issues at the intersection of government surveillance technology and civil liberties. Haley studied law at Indiana University – Bloomington and journalism and political science at Northwestern University.
As senior vice president of ESRB Privacy Certified, Stacy ensures that member companies in the video game and toy industries adopt and maintain lawful, transparent, and responsible privacy practices and policies for their websites, mobile apps, and online services. On a day-to-day basis, she provides member companies with practical advice on resolving privacy challenges arising from the constantly changing, complex global data privacy landscape. Stacy oversees compliance with ESRB’s privacy certifications, including its “Kids Certified” seal, which is an approved Safe Harbor program under the Federal Trade Commission’s Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) Rule.
Before joining ESRB, Stacy spent more than 21 years as an enforcer and regulator at the Federal Trade Commission, developing deep experience in privacy, advertising, and international issues involving consumer-facing digital technologies. As the FTC’s Assistant Director for International Consumer Protection, she served as a lead delegate to the OECD and other international organizations and coordinated with foreign consumer protection and data protection authorities on investigations and cases. Stacy was also a partner in an international litigation firm and clerked for a federal district court judge. Stacy is a graduate of Cornell University and the New York University School of Law.
Iain leads the global trade body for suppliers of privacy-preserving age verification and age estimation technologies. He is the business project manager for euCONSENT, an EU-funded pilot to deliver interoperable online age checks, and is the author of an imminent IEEE international standard for age assurance. Previously he worked for GambleAware, the leading UK charity, ran a research team in Parliament, and was a management consultant with Deloitte.
He read Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Balliol College, Oxford and has an MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA.
Andrew Zack is the Policy Manager for the Family Online Safety Institute, leading policy work relating to online safety laws and regulations. He works with federal and state legislatures, relevant federal agencies, international governments, and industry leaders to develop and advance policies that promote safe and positive online experience for families. Andrew joined FOSI after five years in Senator Ed Markey’s office, where he worked primarily on education, child welfare, and disability policies. Andrew studied Government and Psychology at the College of William and Mary.
While access to data and ‘electronic evidence’ is deemed vital to facilitate the efficient detection and investigation of crimes and illegal activities as well as the prosecution of offenders, strong data protection safeguards in the context of law enforcement are however equally crucial to guarantee respect for the rule of law, privacy, civil liberties and to ensure citizens’ trust. This session will debate how the right balance can be found between the need for law enforcement authorities to access electronic data to investigate crimes and protect national security with the need to protect citizens’ privacy, civil liberties, and fundamental rights against abuses.
In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade reversal and as most digital products have become tracking devices storing information about our movements, searches and communications data that can serve as evidence, it will discuss how important it is for legislators to factor data privacy concerns post-Roe into negotiations over the ADPPA and other proposed federal privacy bills. It will examine the opportunities and challenges brought by the uses of intelligent tech, such as Artificial Intelligence, biometric data and location tracking, for the detection and investigation of illegal activities. Speakers will examine best practices that have been identified for the promotion of privacy protection and transparency in connection with law enforcement activities and will debate the encryption conundrum. They will also explore how cooperation between law enforcement agencies, the judiciary, tech organizations and other stakeholders can concretely be enhanced, both at US level and with international partners, while supporting individuals’ fundamental rights.
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Peter A. Winn currently serves as the Acting Chief Privacy and Civil Liberties Officer (CPCLO) of the United States Department of Justice.
The CPCLO is responsible for ensuring the Department’s compliance with the laws, regulations and established policies designed to protect the privacy of individuals, as well as ensuring that concerns about privacy and civil liberties are appropriately considered in the development and implementation of laws, regulations and policies related to the Department’s mission. The Department of Justice Office of Privacy and Civil Liberties consists of a team of specialized attorneys and privacy professionals dedicated to carrying out the responsibilities of the CPCLO. Mr. Winn has served as the Acting CPCLO of the Department since January 2017.
Prior to becoming the Acting CPCLO, Mr. Winn served for nearly 20 years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney (AUSA) in the Western District of Washington and the Northern District of Texas. In 2014, he served a detail to the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board where he was its Acting General Counsel during its review of the National Security Agency programs that were the subject of the Edward Snowden disclosures. From 2010 to 2012, he served a detail to the Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel, where he was an attorney-advisor. Before joining the Department of Justice as an AUSA, he was a Special Assistant Attorney General for the Attorney General of Texas, and an associate at Carrington, Coleman in Dallas, and Patterson, Belknap in New York. He clerked for James B. McMillan, in the Western District of North Carolina.
Mr. Winn has taught as an adjunct professor at the school of law at University of Washington, at Southern Methodist University, and at the University of Melbourne. He has published articles on the Fourth Amendment, computer security, health privacy, and the right of access to public court records. He received his J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1986, an MPhil in Philosophy from the University of London where he was a Marshall Scholar, and a B.A. magna cum laude from Williams College. As a young child, he grew up in Myanmar (then known as Burma), where his parents were Christian missionaries.
Willmary is a U.S. Policy Analyst for Access Now where she works on issues around content governance, privacy, artificial intelligence, and data protection. She previously served as the Director of Policy and Government Affairs for the National Hispanic Media Coalition and was hosted by Public Knowledge as a Google Policy Fellow in 2016. Willmary received her J.D. from Howard University and is licensed to practice law in Washington D.C.
John Miller, senior vice president of policy and general counsel, currently leads ITI’s Trust Data and Technology policy team, driving ITI’s strategy and advocacy on cybersecurity, privacy and data protection, supply chain security and resiliency, government access to data, digital platforms, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, cloud computing, and other technology and digital policy issues. As general counsel, Mr. Miller serves as ITI’s chief legal officer, leading the association’s amicus filings and advising on legal and regulatory matters. While at ITI, Miller has testified before the U.S. Congress on cybersecurity, supply chain, and privacy topics and participated as a keynote speaker or panelist at major events in the U.S., EU, Japan, India, Brazil and China.
A proven IT industry leader, Mr. Miller received the inaugural National Risk Management Center (NRMC) Partner Award for his work as Co-Chair of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency-sponsored ICT Supply Chain Risk Management Task Force, the preeminent public-private partnership in the U.S. working on supply chain issues. Mr. Miller previously served three terms as Chair of the IT Sector Coordinating Council, the principal IT sector partner on behalf of over 100 organizations to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on cybersecurity, supply chain and critical infrastructure protection policy. Mr. Miller also co-founded and launched the Council to Secure the Digital Economy, an initiative comprised of global ICT providers dedicated to enhancing the cyber resiliency of the global digital ecosystem.
Prior to ITI, Miller worked for nearly a decade in the Global Public Policy organization at member company Intel Corporation. Miller’s positions at Intel included Director of Cybersecurity Policy, Global Policy Strategist, and Director of Government Relations and Managing Counsel, leading Intel’s cybersecurity policy strategy and advocacy activities in the U.S. and spearheading Intel’s global policy strategy development and advocacy on issues including cybersecurity threat information sharing, electronic surveillance and communications privacy, development of the APEC Cross-border privacy rules, and issues at the intersection of human rights, civil liberties and technology. Earlier in his career, Miller led Intel’s privacy and security policy strategy and outreach efforts in the Asia-Pacific region.
Prior to joining Intel, Miller was an associate in private practice in New York, where he represented technology, media, and other corporate clients in a variety of complex business and intellectual property litigations and regulatory matters.
Miller received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Government from Hamilton College, summa cum laude, and a Juris Doctor from the University of Wisconsin Law School, where he served as Articles Editor of the Wisconsin Law Review.
Dan Caprio is an internationally recognized expert on privacy and cybersecurity. He has served as the Chief Privacy Officer and Deputy Assistant Secretary at the Commerce Department, a transatlantic subject matter for the European Commission’s Internet of Things formal expert group, a Chief of Staff at the Federal Trade Commission and a member of the Department of Homeland Security Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee. In 2002, Dan represented the United States revising the OECD Security Guidelines that formed the basis for the first White House Strategy to Secure Cyberspace.
Robert S. Litt, a former official at the Justice Department and the Intelligence Community, is Of Counsel in Morrison Foerster’s National Security and Global Risk & Crisis Management practices. He advises industry-leading organizations on sensitive national security and privacy matters, white-collar investigations, and government enforcement actions.
Prior to joining Morrison Foerster, Mr. Litt was General Counsel for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), giving him a strong understanding of the intelligence community and its equities. Mr. Litt was unanimously confirmed by the Senate for this role, in which he oversaw a team of attorneys providing legal advice to the agency and led interagency national security meetings. He had previously served as Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General in the Department of Justice.
As spokesman for the intelligence community both domestically and overseas on issues relating to surveillance and privacy, Mr. Litt was a key member of the U.S. team that negotiated the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield with the European Commission. This experience uniquely positions him to advise U.S. companies on the intricacies of European privacy rules and foreign companies on U.S. privacy rules.
By creating an immersive digital universe where users can socialize, undertake collaborative work, shop, travel and attend cultural activities, the metaverse has the potential to unleash an exciting and inclusive new world of enriching experiences and innovative business opportunities. Combining virtual elements with physical space in real time and powered by data-intensive technologies, this hybrid reality can be highly personalized. Cameras, sensors, biometric and haptic technologies in combination with the use of AI will vastly increase the amount of data collected and used to monitor habits, preferences and even physiological responses allowing organizations to gain deeper insights and understanding of users’ behaviors to tailor experiences and products in an extraordinarily targeted way. The concept of data privacy in this hybrid context takes on another dimension with many questions regarding this continuous, in-real time data-collection arising.
This session will analyze the security risks and privacy concerns that are expected to be amplified in the metaverse, and how these concerns are being addressed by or diverge from existing policy and regulations about data and consumer protection. It will also ask how this emerging technology could impact our social and legal understandings of privacy and alter the concept of a ‘Redefining Reasonable Expectations of Privacy’ which is tied to Fourth Amendment protections in the US. Comparing the centralized and decentralized metaverses, it will explore the benefits and risks associated with each model and will consider what privacy might look like in either case. Finally, the discussion will focus on the role of self-regulation, collaboration and standard-setting activities to address privacy issues before the adoption of the technology by individuals, businesses and government becomes more widespread.
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Lindsey Barrett is a Telecommunications Policy Analyst at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, where she focuses on internet policy. Her experience in technology policy includes developing and co-teaching the Technology Law & Policy Investigations Practicum at Georgetown Law, advocating for public interest clients in technology policy matters as a teaching fellow and staff attorney at Georgetown’s Communications & Technology Law Clinic, and numerous publications on consumer privacy and the Fourth Amendment in law journals and in popular press. She received her B.A. from Duke cum laude, and both an LL.M. in advocacy with distinction and her law degree from Georgetown.
Will Duffield is a policy analyst in the Cato Institute’s Center for Representative Government, where he studies speech and internet governance. His research focuses on the web of government regulation and private rules that govern Americans’ speech online.
Tani Olhanoski is the CEO and co-founder of Mysilio, a consulting firm dedicated to advancing new paradigms for decentralized, user-owned web platforms. They have spent the last decade building software companies and communities in the Bay Area, beginning their career in decentralized tech in 2014 as the Director of Operations for one of the first fully-compliant Bitcoin exchanges in the US, and has since gone on to spend 8+ years working at the intersection of operations, regulatory compliance, and fraud and identity systems for fintech and crypto startups. As more of our social interactions have started migrating online and the potential impact of “Web3” started to become clear, they founded Mysilio with the goal to investigate the complex intersections of governance, economics, and power dynamics that exist within our online platforms, and how we may re-build software from the ground up to truly empower users and provide a more equitable, open Web.
Jay is the co-founder and President of ImmersiveTouch, a pioneer in patient-specific augmented reality navigation software. He is responsible for running all facets of the business and has a proven executive management track record driving growth and innovation in healthcare. He is a leader in improving patient care and enhancing physician capabilities, an accomplished speaker, and a contributor to publications such as Forbes and Business Insider. Prior to ImmersiveTouch Jay was a project manager at JPMorgan Chase and Co. and a business consultant at Illinois Business Consulting.
Under his leadership the company has been awarded Best Simulation Company in North America by Frost & Sullivan; listed in the 34 Virtual Reality Companies to Know by Built In; featured in Healthcare Tech Outlook ‘s Top 10 Medical Imaging Solutions Providers; named one of The 7 Virtual Reality Companies to Innovate Healthcare by Medical Design and Outsourcing; listed as one of The 9 Healthcare Companies Making Innovations in Virtual Reality by Touchstone Research; and selected as one of the Top 10 Startups by HealthBox.
Jay recently completed a certification in Economics of Blockchain and Digital Assets from The Wharton school. He holds a BS in Industrial Engineering, Finance, and Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an MA in Consciousness and Human Potential from Maharishi International University.
Jonathan Litchman is a national security veteran with experience as an intelligence officer and as a staff member on the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He was also a senior executive at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) where he led efforts in software product development and consulted on information operations and strategic planning. He most recently led Edelman Public Relations’ Washington, D.C. cybersecurity policy and national security practice.
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ACT | The App Association represents more than 5,000 app makers and connected device companies in the mobile economy. Organization members leverage the connectivity of smart devices to create innovative solutions that make our lives better. The App Association is the leading industry resource on market strategy, regulated industries, privacy, and security.
As the first truly modern media company, AT&T has been changing the way people live, work and play for more than 140 years. It started with Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone. Since then, our legacy of innovation has included the invention of the transistor – the building block of today’s digital world – as well as the solar cell, the communications satellite and machine learning. Throughout its history, AT&T has reinvented itself time and time again – most recently adding WarnerMedia to reshape the world of technology, media and telecommunications. Our two companies are no strangers to making history together. In the 1920s, AT&T built the technology to add sound to motion pictures, which Warner Bros. then used to create the first talking picture. For nearly 100 years, WarnerMedia and its family of companies have redefined how audiences around the world consume media and entertainment. It launched the first premium network in HBO and introduced the world’s first 24-hour all-news network in CNN. WarnerMedia continues to deliver popular content to global audiences from a diverse array of talented storytellers and journalists.
BSA | The Software Alliance is the leading advocate for the global software industry before governments and in the international marketplace. Its members are among the world’s most innovative companies, creating software solutions that spark the economy and improve modern life. With headquarters in Washington, DC, and operations in more than 30 countries, BSA pioneers compliance programs that promote legal software use and advocates for public policies that foster technology innovation and drive growth in the digital economy.
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.
Workday is a leading provider of enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources. Founded in 2005, Workday delivers financial management, human capital management, planning, and analytics applications designed for the world’s largest companies, educational institutions, and government agencies. Organizations ranging from medium-sized businesses to Fortune 50 enterprises have selected Workday. We have over 500 customers across Europe and an overall customer community representing 44 million workers. This includes some of Europe’s largest and most innovative companies, such as Airbus, Sanofi, Deutsche Bank, Primark, Siemens, and Blabla Car.
The Providence Group advises companies and organizations globally on how to manage enterprise-wide cybersecurity risks and we provide insight and counsel into the complex and changing cybersecurity regulatory, reputation and threat environment.
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