Welcome New EFF Executive Director Nicole Ozer
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has named Nicole Ozer as its new Executive Director. Ozer brings over two decades of experience in privacy, surveillance, AI policy, and digital civil liberties, most recently leading the Center for Constitutional Democracy at UC Law San Francisco and before that founding the ACLU of Northern California's Technology and Civil Liberties Program.
Why this matters: EFF is one of the few organizations that consistently shows up when governments or companies push too far into people's digital lives. Who runs it matters. Ozer spent 20 years at the ACLU building the case against surveillance and fighting for civil liberties in tech policy. That is not a resume that suggests a softer line on corporate or government overreach. For people who care about who is actually in the room defending digital rights, this is a significant appointment.
Who should care: AI governance · Lawyers · Administrators · Privacy officers · Cybersecurity · General readers · Policy
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