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Privacy & Data

Disappearing Phone Booths: Privacy in the Digital Age

CDT Senior Policy Analyst Erica Newland gave a version of this talk to DC Superior Court judges in May 2012. This speech, which draws on past CDT testimony and work, makes the case that in the context of a legal framework that has turned a blind-eye to the foundational benefits of privacy, changes in technology are threatening this civil liberty with obsolescence.