Privacy Seminar Speaker:
David Rocah
ACLU
Thursday, April 11, 2013
3:30 - 4:45PM in 3120 AV Williams Building
The next visitor to our privacy honors seminar, HONR239R, will
be David Rocah, whose talk is titled Civil Liberties in the Era of Big Data: An
ACLU Perspective on Technology and Privacy.
David Rocah is a
Staff Attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union of
Maryland, where he has worked on significant cases involving
free speech, police misconduct, lesbian and gay rights,
privacy, reproductive freedom, and election law. In 2009 the
Maryland Daily Record selected him as one of the ten most
influential lawyers in the state. Prior to coming to work for
the ACLU of Maryland, David was a Senior Trial Attorney in the
Special Litigation Section of the Civil Rights Division at the
United States Department of Justice. At the DOJ, David handled
investigations of, and civil suits regarding, police
misconduct and conditions in prisons, jails, and state
facilities for persons with developmental disabilities. Prior
to working for the Civil Rights Division, David worked for
four years as a staff attorney with the ACLU in New Jersey,
where he argued cases involving reproductive freedom, lesbian
and gay rights, random drug testing, religious freedom,
freedom of speech, ballot access, and juvenile curfews, among
others. David is a 1994 honors graduate of New York University
School of Law, where he was a Root-Tilden-Snow Scholar. After
law school, David served as a law clerk to United States
District Court Judge Barefoot Sanders in Dallas, Texas. He is
a native of Chicago, IL, and has a B.A. with special honors in
philosophy from the University of Chicago. He is a resident of
Baltimore City.
As always, any student in the Honors College
who has an interest in meeting our seminar speakers is welcome
to attend class as our guest. Details on the course are at http://doubletap.cs.umd.edu/purtilo/239R/
Prof. Jim Purtilo (purtilo@cs.umd.edu)
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