8/14/2019 EFF: EFF speaker bios

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Speaker Bios:Mark Klein is a retired A & telecommunications technician who worked just prior to hisretirement in the A & acility at 611 Folsom Street, San Francisco. When news reports o thegovernment’s warrantless surveillance program sur aced in December, 2005, he realized that hehad been witness to, and participated in setting up, a massive, untargeted spying program thatviolated the rights o millions o Americans. Klein brought his evidence to the Electronic FrontieFoundation in early 2006 — including over a hundred pages o authenticated A & schematicdiagrams and tables detailinghow A & diverted its customers’ communications to a room

controlled by the National Security Agency with sophisticated equipment inside capable o analyzing millions o customer internet activities and emails in real time. Mr. Klein worked or A& or more than 22 years be ore retiringin 2004. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Brian Reid is a network systems and in rastructure expert, involved in the development o criti-cal technologies at the oundation o the Internet. Reid is currently the Director o Engineering and

echnical Operations at Internet Systems Consortium, a non-pro t organization devoted to sup-porting a non-proprietary Internet. During his long and distinguished career, Mr. Reid has workedat Google, Bell Labs, and Digital Equipment Corp, and was a pro essor at Stan ord University andCarnegie Mellon University West. Reid was awarded the Presidential Young Investigator award in1984, and received the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award in 1982.

Cindy Cohn is the Legal Director o the Electronic Frontier Foundation. She co-chair o the Executive Committee o the combined litigation challenging the NSA warrantless wiretapping,calledIn re NSA Telecommunications Records Litigation.Ms. Cohn is also plainti s’ counsel in EFF’scase,Hepting v. AT&T , which was the rst such lawsuit brought by customers against a telecom-munications company or acilitating the illegal dragnet spying o ordinary Americans. TeNationalLaw Journalnamed Ms. Cohn one o 100 most infuential lawyers in America in 2006 or “rushingto the barricades wherever reedom and civil liberties are at stake online.” In 2007, theJournalnamedher one o the 50 most infuential women lawyers in America.

Kevin Bankston is a Sta Attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He was the rstto meet with whistleblower Mark Klein when he came orward with his evidence o illegal spyingin 2005, and is plainti s’ counsel inHepting v. AT&T — the rst class-action lawsuit led against atelecommunications company or its role in illegally spying on millions o Americans. Mr. Bankstonspecializes in ree speech and privacy law.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading civil liberties organization working to protect rights

in the digital world. EFF represents the A & customer plainti s in Hepting v. A & — the rst lawsuit led againsta telecommunications company or its role in illegally spying on millions o Americans. EFF is a leader in the combinedlitigation challenging the NSA warrantless wiretapping. Founded in 1990, EFF blends the expertise o lawyers, policyanalysts, activists, and technologists, achieving signi cant victories on behal o consumers and the general public.EFF is a non-pro t, member-supported organization.

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