Barry Steinhardt
Director of Technology and Liberty Program
American Civil Liberties Union
Barry Steinhardt served as Associate Director of the American Civil Liberties Union between 1992 and 2002, taking a leave of absence in 1998 to serve as President of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. In 2002, he was named as the inaugural Director of the ACLU's Program on Technology and Liberty. He was chair of the 2003 Computer Freedom and Privacy Conference (CFP) and a co-founder of the Global Internet Liberty Campaign (GILC), the world's first international coalition of Non-Governmental Organizations concerned with the rights of Internet users to privacy and free expression. He is a member of the Advisory Committee to the US Census and was a member of the Blue Ribbon Panel on Genetics of the National Conference of State Legislatures. He also was selected to be a member of the US delegation to the G-8 Government and Private Sector Tokyo conference on Cyber Crime.
Steinhardt has spoken and written widely on privacy and information technology issues to audiences ranging from the National Conference of State Legislatures, to the National Commission on the Future of DNA Evidence, to the Hoover Institute, to the UNESCO Conference on Intellectual Property. At the invitation of members of the Japanese Parliament, Steinhardt gave a series of lectures in Japan on electronic surveillance in the information age. He has written on privacy issues and free expression issues in a variety of periodicals ranging from USA Today, to CIO Magazine, to the journal of the Davos World Economic Forum. Steinhardt is a frequent guest on news and talk programs and has appeared on such programs as the Today Show, CNN's Crossfire, CBS's Face the Nation and Morning News, and The Donahue Shows.
Steinhardt is a 1978 graduate of the Northeastern University School of Law.
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