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Nicole Ozer (@nicoleozer) is the Technology and Civil Liberties Director for the ÀÏ°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û of Northern California and has led the organization’s cutting-edge work in California to defend and promote civil liberties in the modern digital world since 2004 utilizing an integrated advocacy approach that coordinates work in the courts, in communities, with companies, and California policymakers to achieve maximum impact. Nicole spearheaded the passage of the landmark California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (CalECPA) and California Reader Privacy Act, designed groundbreaking local surveillance reform strategies now used across the country, and also developed the ÀÏ°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û’s national online privacy campaign, Demand Your dotRights. Prior to joining the ÀÏ°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û, Nicole was an intellectual property attorney at Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco. Nicole graduated magna cum laude from Amherst College, studied comparative civil rights history at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and earned her J.D. from Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California Berkeley.