EFF Welcomes Alexander Macgillivray to its Board of Directors
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has appointed Alexander Macgillivray to its board of directors. Macgillivray previously held senior legal roles at Google and Twitter and served as a technology policy official in both the Obama and Biden administrations, where he co-authored the Biden AI Bill of Rights blueprint.
Why this matters: Macgillivray has been in the room when big tech companies and the federal government made decisions about how the internet works. That background cuts both ways. He knows how these institutions operate from the inside, which is useful for a civil liberties organization. But EFF's credibility rests on pushing back against the same tech companies and government offices he used to work for. The appointment is a bet that insider knowledge matters more than insider distance.
Who should care: General readers · AI governance · Policy
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