National Journal Profiles CDT Senior Policy Director

In her piece, National Journal’s Lucia Graves interviews some of DC’s top technology players, including our very own Senior Policy Director, Chris Calabrese.

Chris Calabrese moved to Washington five years ago, and he hasn’t looked back. “For a public-policy attorney, coming to D.C. is kind of like going to L.A. if you’re an actor,” he says. “It’s where the action is.” Originally from Boston, Calabrese served as an ACLU legal counsel dealing with commercial privacy and Fourth Amendment rights in New York until this fall, when he became the senior policy director for the Center for Democracy & Technology. Calabrese, 42, says he hopes to continue the work he did with the ACLU in a “bigger and broader way” at the Washington-based civil-liberties group. “The problem is that we don’t yet have the legal tools that we need to protect people’s privacy,” he says. “If my only choice is agree to this terms-of-use agreement or don’t use the service, there’s not a whole lot of privacy control there.”

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