James Dempsey
Jim Dempsey is a senior policy advisor at the Stanford Program on Geopolitics, Technology and Governance. Previously, he was the Executive Director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology at the UC Berkeley law school, where he still teaches a course in cybersecurity law in the LLM program.
From 1997 to 2014, Dempsey was at the Center for Democracy & Technology, where he held a number of leadership positions, including Executive Director. He also served, after Senate confirmation, as a Presidentially-appointed member of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, an independent federal agency charged with advising senior policymakers and overseeing the nation’s counterterrorism programs.
Dempsey is co-author of "Cybersecurity Law Fundamentals" (2d ed. 2024), published by the IAPP.
Contributions by James Dempsey
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Cybersecurity Law Basics
Westin Research Center -
Major trends in US cybersecurity law and policy
The Privacy Advisor -
California privacy agency lays out vision for cybersecurity regulation
Privacy Perspectives -
The FTC’s rapidly evolving standards for MFA
Privacy Perspectives -
Third circuit shows how to establish standing in data breach cases
Privacy Perspectives -
FTC signals expanded breach notice obligations
Privacy Perspectives -
Exceptions in new US state privacy laws leave data without security coverage
Privacy Perspectives -
Key data security insights from FTC CafePress settlement
The Privacy Advisor -
US courts mixed on letting data breach suits go forward
Privacy Perspectives -
Why FTC’s GLB Safeguards Rule update is noteworthy
The Privacy Advisor -
Why the Fifth Circuit HIPAA case doesn't mean 'game over' for HHS data security enforcement
Privacy Perspectives