Chris Conley
Technology & Civil Liberties Fellow, ACLU of Northern California

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Chris Conley is the Technology & Civil Liberties Fellow at the ACLU of Northern California, where he focuses on the intersection of privacy, free speech, and emerging technology. His current focus is Demand Your dotRights, a multi-pronged campaign to upgrade practical and legal privacy protections to match our modern world. He holds degrees in both law (J.D., Harvard Law School) and technology (S.M. in Computer Science, M.I.T.; B.S.E. in Electrical Engineering, The University of Michigan) and combines those skills to explore ways that technology can be designed and utilized to provide social benefits while protecting individual rights. Prior to joining the ACLU of Northern California, he has worked as a research fellow with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, as a software engineer for Intel, and as a software architecture and database consultant for various corporations and non-profit entities.