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Past Event
Seminar

Ben Wizner: Liberty and Security in the Age of Trump

Open to the Public

Please join us for a discussion with Director of the ACLU's Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project Ben Wizner. This discussion will be moderated by Cyber Security Project Fellow and Lecturer in Public Policy Bruce Schneier.

This event is open to the public, but seating and lunch will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Date: Time: - Location: Suite 470
Ben Wizner

About

Ben Wizner (@benwizner) is the director of the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project. For more than 15 years, he has worked at the intersection of civil liberties and national security, litigating numerous cases involving airport security policies, government watch lists, surveillance practices, targeted killing, and torture. He appears regularly in the global media, has testified before Congress, and is an adjunct professor at New York University School of Law. Since July of 2013, he has been the principal legal advisor to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. Ben is a graduate of Harvard College and New York University School of Law and was a law clerk to the Hon. Stephen Reinhardt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.