Sydney Saubestre is a senior policy analyst on CDT’s Privacy and Data Project.
Sydney’s writing has appeared in Foreign Policy, U.S. News, and Ms. Magazine, and her analysis has been featured in Newsweek, The Boston Globe, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Politico, and Axios, among other outlets. She is currently a Tech and Public Policy Visiting Fellow at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy.
Prior to joining CDT, Sydney worked at New America’s Open Technology Institute (OTI) where she led the privacy and data portfolio, with a focus on responsible data use to ensure that emerging technologies serve the public good while protecting vulnerable communities. While at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), she was a Mellon Fellow in Critical Data Studies, where she worked on open-source data access and helped design a new minor in critical data studies. She also conducted research in partnership with the ACLU SoCal on quantifying the impacts of digital surveillance on high school students in the United States.
Previously, she worked on a wide breadth of policy issues impacting women and children—in government, nonprofit organizations, and academic research institutes. She worked at UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center on foster care reforms to better support youth who experienced Commercial Sexual Exploitation. During her time at the Oakland Mayor’s Office, she implemented a city-wide education initiative, after which she completed a Coro Fellowship in Public Policy. She holds bachelor’s in economics and anthropology from The New School and a master’s in public policy from UCLA.
CDT and Allies Urge FCC Not to Violate Privacy of Cell Phone Buyers
CDT and EPIC led a coalition of 15 organizations in urging the FCC not to require phone companies to collect government IDs, physical addresses, and alternate phone numbers from every phone subscriber in the country.
