Kurt is a Senior Staff Attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation focusing on civil liberties, free speech and privacy law. Kurt has counseled numerous computer security researchers on their rights to conduct and discuss research. Before joining EFF, Kurt worked at Perkins Coie, where he represented technology clients with respect to intellectual property, privacy, defamation, and other online liability matters, including working on Kelly v. Arribasoft, MGM v. Grokster and CoStar v. LoopNet. Prior to Perkins, Kurt was a research fellow to Professor Pamela Samuelson at the U.C. Berkeley School of Information Management & Systems. Kurt received his law degree from Boalt Hall, and undergraduate degree from U.C. Santa Cruz. Kurt co-authored "Electronic Media and Privacy Law Handbook.” In 2007, Kurt was named as one of the “Attorneys of the Year” by California Lawyer magazine for his work on the O'Grady v. Superior Court appeal, which established the reporter’s privilege for online journalists. Kurt is a member of the USENIX Board of Directors.
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