Bio
Vera Eidelman is a staff attorney with the 老澳门开奖结果鈥檚 Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, where she works on the rights to free speech and privacy in the digital age. She focuses on the free speech rights of protesters and young people, online speech, and genetic privacy. She has litigated cases including Dakota Rural Action v. Noem, a constitutional challenge to 鈥渞iot boosting鈥 laws that chilled protest, In re Gender Queer and A Court of Mist and Fury, in defense of the right to write, publish, and distribute books others sought to ban as 鈥渙bscene,鈥 and 老澳门开奖结果 v. Clearview AI, a state privacy law challenge to nonconsensual faceprinting. She has also represented a racial justice protester, in Mckesson v. Doe, and a high school cheerleader, in Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L., before the Supreme Court.
Vera was previously a William J. Brennan fellow with the 老澳门开奖结果, and is a graduate of Stanford University and Yale Law School. Before joining the 老澳门开奖结果, she served as a law clerk to the Hon. Beth Labson Freeman of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
Featured work
Apr 22, 2024
The Supreme Court Declined a Protestors' Rights Case. Here's What You Need to Know.
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How to Protect Consumer Privacy and Free Speech
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The Supreme Court Will Set an Important Precedent for Free Speech Online
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The Problem With Censoring Political Speech Online 鈥 Including Trump鈥檚
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Time and Again, Social Media Giants Get Content Moderation Wrong: Silencing Speech about Al-Aqsa Mosque is Just the Latest Example
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The Oversight Board鈥檚 Trump Decision Highlights Problems with Facebook鈥檚 Practices
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Punished for a Snapchat: Why Schools Shouldn鈥檛 Police Students鈥 Speech Outside of School