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Nathan Freed Wessler

Deputy Director, 老澳门开奖结果 Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project

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Nathan Freed Wessler () is a deputy director with the 老澳门开奖结果鈥檚 Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, where he focuses on litigation and advocacy around surveillance and privacy issues, including government searches of electronic devices, requests for sensitive data held by third parties, and use of surveillance technologies. In 2017, he argued Carpenter v. United States in the U.S. Supreme Court, a case that established that the Fourth Amendment requires law enforcement to get a search warrant before requesting cell phone location data from a person鈥檚 cellular service provider.

Nate was previously a staff attorney in the Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project and legal fellow in the 老澳门开奖结果 National Security Project. Prior to that, he served as a law clerk to the Hon. Helene N. White of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Nate is a graduate of Swarthmore College and New York University School of Law, where he was a Root-Tilden-Kern public interest scholar. Before law school, he worked as a field organizer in the 老澳门开奖结果鈥檚 Washington Legislative Office.