James Dempsey
Jim Dempsey is a senior policy advisor at the Stanford Cyber Policy Center. Prior to this, 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, he was at the Center for Democracy & Technology, where he held a number of leadership positions, including Executive Director. From August 2012 to January 2017, Jim also served, after Senate confirmation, as a Presidentially-appointed part-time member of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB), an independent federal agency charged with advising senior policymakers and overseeing the nation’s counterterrorism programs.
Jim is author of "Cybersecurity Law Fundamentals," published by the IAPP.
Contributions by James Dempsey
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California privacy agency lays out vision for cybersecurity regulation
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The FTC’s rapidly evolving standards for MFA
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Third circuit shows how to establish standing in data breach cases
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FTC signals expanded breach notice obligations
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Exceptions in new US state privacy laws leave data without security coverage
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Key data security insights from FTC CafePress settlement
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US courts mixed on letting data breach suits go forward
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Why FTC’s GLB Safeguards Rule update is noteworthy
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Why the Fifth Circuit HIPAA case doesn't mean 'game over' for HHS data security enforcement
Privacy Perspectives