The Age of Surveillance

James X. Dempsey’s areas of expertise include privacy, electronic surveillance and national security issues. He heads the Center for Democracy and Technology’s (CDT) international project, the Global Internet Policy Initiative (GIPI). Formerly, Dempsey was Deputy Director of the Center for National Security Studies. From 1995 to 1996, Dempsey served as special counsel to the National Security Archive, a nongovernmental research institute and library that uses the Freedom of Information Act to gain the declassification of documents on U.S. foreign policy.

From 1985 to 1994, Dempsey was assistant counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights. His primary areas of responsibility for the Subcommittee were oversight of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, privacy and civil liberties. He worked on issues at the intersection of national security and constitutional rights, including terrorism, counterintelligence and electronic surveillance as well as crime issues, including the federal death penalty, remedies for racial bias in death sentencing, information privacy and police brutality. Dempsey is author of several articles on Internet policy, such as "Communications Privacy In The Digital Age: Revitalizing The Federal Wiretap Laws To Enhance Privacy", and is co-author of the book Terrorism & the Constitution: Sacrificing Civil Liberties in the Name of National Security with Prof. David Cole of Georgetown Law School.

Janlori Goldman directs the Health Privacy Project, which is dedicated to ensuring that people's privacy is safeguarded in the health care environment. Goldman is also Research Faculty at the Center on Medicine as a Profession at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. In 1997, Goldman was a Visiting Scholar at Georgetown University Law Center, and in 1994 she co-founded the Center for Democracy and Technology, a nonprofit civil liberties organization committed to preserving free speech and privacy on the Internet. Goldman also worked at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and was the staff attorney and Director of the Privacy and Technology Project for the American Civil Liberties Union. While at the ACLU, Ms. Goldman led the effort to enact the Video Privacy Protection Act and as well as efforts to protect people's health, credit, financial and personal information held by the government.

Goldman testifies frequently before the U.S. Congress and has served on numerous commissions and advisory boards. Her most recent publications include "Bioterrorism, Public Health and Privacy," in Lost Liberties: Ashcroft and the Assault on Personal Freedom; “Genetics and Privacy," in the American Journal of Law & Medicine; and “Virtually Exposed: Privacy and E-Health,” co-authored with Joanne Hustead, in Health Affairs. The Health Privacy Project also released two reports: "The State of Health Privacy: An Uneven Terrain (A Comprehensive Survey of State Health Privacy Statutes)" and "Best Principles for Health Privacy: A Report of the Health Privacy Working Group."

Kate Martin has been Director of the Center for National Security Studies, in Washington, D.C, since 1992. She has written, litigated cases, and testified before Congress on the entire range of national security and civil liberties issues. Martin has taught Strategic Intelligence and Public Policy at Georgetown University Law School and served as general counsel to the National Security Archive, an independent nongovernmental research institute and library located at George Washington University, from 1995 to 2001. Martin was also co-director with Andrzej Rzeplinski of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights in Warsaw, of a project on Security Services in a Constitutional Democracy in 12 former communist countries in Europe. Martin graduated from the University of Virginia Law School, where she was a member of the Law Review, and from Pomona College. Her publications include “Domestic Intelligence and Civil Liberties,” SAIS Review of International Affairs, and “Secret Arrests and Preventive Detention,” in Lost Liberties.

Prior to joining the Open Society Institute in 1993, Aryeh Neier served for 12 years as Executive Director of Human Rights Watch. Prior to that, he spent 15 years at the American Civil Liberties Union, including eight years as National Director. Neier has served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at New York University for more than a dozen years. He is a frequent contributor to The Nation and the New York Review of Books, and has published in periodicals such as the New York Times Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, and Foreign Policy. Neier has contributed to more than a hundred op-ed articles in newspapers including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, and the International Herald Tribune.

Author of six books, Neier has also contributed chapters to more than twenty books. He has lectured at most of the country’s leading universities, and has appeared frequently on such television shows as “Nightline,” the “McNeil-Lehrer Newshour,” and the “Today Show.” Neier, a naturalized American, was born in Nazi Germany and became a refugee at an early age. He is the recipient of six honorary doctorates and the American Bar Association’s Gavel Award.

Joseph Onek provides counsel on issues of civil rights, civil liberties, and constitutional law. Onek has a distinguished history of federal government and public interest service. He first joined the government as a law clerk to Chief Judge David L. Bazelon, of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan. He also worked as a Senate staffer. In the Carter Administration, Onek served as a member of the White House Domestic Policy Staff and then as Deputy Counsel to the President. In the Clinton Administration, he served as Principal Deputy Associate Attorney General and as Senior Coordinator for Rule of Law in the State Department. In the public interest world, Onek served as an attorney and then Director of the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP), and as Senior Counsel and Director of the Liberty and Security Initiative at the Constitution Project. Onek is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is Chairman of the Board of CLASP. Mr. Onek holds a BA from Harvard College. As a Marshall Scholar, he earned his MA at the London School of Economics. He earned his LLB at Yale Law School.

Jeffrey Rosen is a graduate of Harvard College, summa cum laude; Balliol College, Oxford, where he was a Marshall Scholar; and Yale Law School. After clerking for Chief Judge Abner Mikva on the U. S. Court of Appeals for District of Columbia Circuit, he joined The New Republic in 1992. Rosen is also an Associate Professor at the George Washington University Law School, where he teaches constitutional law and criminal procedures. His essays and book reviews have appeared in many publications, including the New York Times Magazine and the New Yorker. Rosen is the author of The Unwanted Gaze: The Destruction of Privacy in America, which the New York Times called "the definitive text on privacy perils in the digital age."