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What and Who

Cybersecurity and civil liberties - how the new U.S. government will approach cyber threats

Timothy H. Edgar
Watson Institute of Brown University
CISPA Distinguished Lecture Series

Timothy H. Edgar is the author of Beyond Snowden: Privacy, Mass Surveillance and the Struggle to Reform the
NSA (forthcoming 2017). He served under President Obama from 2009 to 2010 as the first director of
privacy and civil liberties for the White House National Security Staff, focusing on cyber security, open government, and
data privacy initiatives.

From 2006 to 2009, he was the first deputy for civil liberties for the director of national intelligence, reviewing new
surveillance authorities, the terrorist watchlist, and other sensitive programs. He holds a JD from Harvard Law School,
where he served on the Harvard Law Review, and an AB from Dartmouth College.

For further information:
http://watson.brown.edu/people/fellow/edgar

The talk is made possible through the support of the Embassy of the United States of America and the Deutsch-
Amerikanisches Institut Saarbruecken
AG 1, AG 2, AG 3, AG 4, AG 5, SWS, RG1, MMCI  
Public Audience
English

Date, Time and Location

Tuesday, 21 February 2017
10:30
60 Minutes
E9 1
007
Saarbrücken

Contact

Andrea Ruffing
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Uwe Brahm, 02/21/2017 14:30
Andrea Ruffing, 02/15/2017 15:25 -- Created document.