Chris Conley is the Technology and Civil Liberties Policy Attorney at the ACLU of Northern California, where his mission is to ensure that emerging technology bolsters rather than erodes individual privacy and free speech rights. He takes a multidisciplinary approach to protecting civil liberties, from building apps and other tools that help users better understand and control the flow of their personal information to working on resources that help businesses build privacy and free speech protections into new products and services. He has particularly focused on the role that privacy companies can play in protecting the freedoms of their users.

Prior to joining the ACLU of Northern California, Chris was a Fellow with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, where he led research efforts on international Internet surveillance. He previously worked as a software engineer and data architect for various corporations and non-profits.

Chris holds a B.S.E. in Electrical Engineering from The University of Michigan, a S.M. in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a J.D. from Harvard Law. Twitter: @ManConley Facebook:aclunc