Bio
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.
Featured work
Jan 22, 2014
Verizon Begins to Clear the Air With First Transparency Report
Dec 20, 2013
Victory! Verizon Agrees to Publish Transparency Report (Updated)
Dec 9, 2013
Sen. Dianne Feinstein's NSA 'reforms': bad for privacy, bad for business
Jul 11, 2013
AT&T Wants Us to Pay Them With Our Money And Our Privacy – How to Opt Out
Feb 6, 2013
ÀÏ°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û Guide: Tips for Companies on Protecting User Privacy and Free Speech in 2013
Mar 10, 2012
Note to Self: Siri Not Just Working for Me, Working Full-Time for Apple, Too
Jan 10, 2012
Keeping "Your World" Private: Turning off Google's New Private Search Results
Oct 21, 2011
Online Privacy Law Turns a Quarter of a Century Old Today
Jul 27, 2011
Bill Harming Online Privacy Moving Through Congress