Al Franken (D-MN) earlier, he was an associate at the law firm WilmerHale. He previously served as the first Chief Counsel to the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law after its founding in 2011, and as Chief Counsel to former U.S. He has been influential in research and policy at the intersection of privacy and civil rights, and co-authored a 2016 report on the use of facial recognition by law enforcement and the risks that it poses. Bedoya was the founding director of the Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown University Law Center, where he was also a visiting professor of law. Senate, and sworn in as a Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission his term expires in September 2026. How antitrust fundamentally is about small competitors and working people, like laborers and farmers, deserving fairness in our economy.Īlvaro Bedoya was nominated by President Joe Biden, confirmed by the U.S.Making sure that one-size-fits-all privacy rules don’t backfire against new entrants and small competitors.Why the Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act (HIPAA) isn’t the privacy panacea you might think it is.The nuances of work that “bossware, ” employee surveillance technology, can’t catch.In that world, all our interactions with technology -from social media to job or mortgage applications-are on a level playing field.īedoya speaks with EFF’s Cindy Cohn and Jason Kelley about how fixing the internet should allow all people to live their lives with dignity, pride, and purpose. Bedoya has made a career of studying privacy, trust, and competition, and wishes for a world in which we can do, see, and read what we want, living our lives without being held back by our identity, income, faith, or any other attribute. To Federal Trade Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya, the story-which long predates the internet-is a great metaphor for why we must be wary of workplace surveillance, and why we need to strengthen our privacy laws. You can also find this episode on the Internet Archive.

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