Past Event
Special Series

"Fake News: Is the Cure Worse than the Disease?" with Ben Wizner

Open to the Public

Join the Cyber Security Project for lunch with Ben Wizner, Director of the ACLU's Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project. 

 

Lunch served on a first come, first served basis. 

Ben Wizner

Speaker Biography

Ben Wizner (@benwizner) is the director of the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project. For nearly 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.