Nate Cardozo is an American privacy engineer and former privacy and civil rights lawyer. He spent much of his career as a staff attorney at the
San Francisco
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-based
Electronic Frontier Foundation
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(EFF), where his portfolio included
cybersecurity
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, privacy litigation, and protecting coders' rights. His practice focused on
encryption
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and information security.
In January 2019, Cardozo left EFF to join
Facebook
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as the privacy policy manager of
WhatsApp
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.
Then in July 2022, he left Facebook (by then known as Meta), and left the law entirely. He joined Google as a Senior Staff Privacy Engineer, working on end-to-end encryption on Android.
See also
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is an international non-profit digital rights group based in San Francisco, California. The foundation was formed on 10 July 1990 by John Gilmore, John Perry Barlow and Mitch Kapor to promote Internet ci ...
*
Encryption
In cryptography, encryption is the process of encoding information. This process converts the original representation of the information, known as plaintext, into an alternative form known as ciphertext. Ideally, only authorized parties can decip ...
References
External links
* Cardozo'
blog posts on the EFF DeepLinks blog
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21st-century American lawyers
Living people
American people of Jewish descent
Year of birth missing (living people)