Eric Null is the Director of the Privacy & Data Project at CDT. Since joining CDT in January 2022, Eric has led CDT’s work on comprehensive privacy legislation and agency privacy actions at both the federal and state levels, including the American Privacy Rights Act and the FTC’s privacy rulemaking. He focuses particularly on data minimization and civil rights as two key protections necessary in a privacy regime.
Eric was previously the United States Policy Manager at Access Now, an international human rights organization, where he oversaw tech and digital rights policy in the U.S., particularly around data protection, connectivity, and content moderation. While there, Eric expanded the organization’s data protection work to include states and agencies in addition to Congress, and served as its global lead on connectivity policy.
Eric has also worked at New America’s Open Technology Institute (OTI), where he helped develop the consumer privacy program in addition to advocating for internet openness and affordable and ubiquitous broadband, and at Georgetown Law’s Institute for Public Representation (now the Technology Law Clinic), working primarily on media regulation and children’s privacy.
He earned an LL.M. from Georgetown Law, a J.D. from Cardozo Law, and a B.A. in political science from the University of Vermont.
