Once again, the Electronic Frontier Foundation returns to the Underground to answer your toughest Off-the-Record queries. Question some of the greatest minds in the field of internet law, in this annual BSidesLV tradition. (Note: if you need legal advice about your own situation, please contact EFF separately so you can have a confidential conversation.)
Staff Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation Nate is a Staff Attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a non-profit organization based in San Francisco, California dedicated to defending users’ rights in the digital world. As a lawyer on the EFF’s civil liberties team, he focuses his work on the intersection of technology, privacy, and free expression. Nate has defended the rights of anonymous bloggers, sued the United States government for access to improperly classified documents, and lobbied Congress for sensible reform of American surveillance laws. In addition, he works on EFF's Coders’ Rights Project, counseling hackers and security professionals, and manages EFF’s Who Has Your Back? report on corporate transparency.Nate has projects involving automotive privacy, government transparency, hardware hacking rights, anonymous speech, Freedom of Information Act litigation, and resisting the expansion of the surveillance state. A 2009-2010 EFF Open Government Legal Fellow, Nate spent two years in private practice before returning to his senses and to EFF in 2012. Nate has a B.A. in Anthropology and Politics from U.C. Santa Cruz and a J.D. from U.C. Hastings where he has taught first-year legal writing and moot court.
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.