This afternoon Tom welcomes to the show two scholars who think a lot about the technical and legal ways in which our privacy is up for grabs, how privacy protections are changing in the Trump Era, and what those changes mean.
Melanie Teplinsky is a cyber law and policy expert and an adjunct professor at American University’s Washington College of Law. As a lawyer, she has advised international clients on a broad array of technical and policy positions having to do with privacy. She began her career as an analyst at the National Security Agency, and she then worked on encryption policy and a wide range of information technology policy issues as part of the Clinton Administration. Teplinsky writes and speaks extensively on cyber law and policy issues. She joined us on the line from the studios of WAMU in Washington.
Prof. Avi Rubin joined Tom in the studio. Rubin is the Technical Director of the Information Security Institute at Johns Hopkins University, where he also teaches computer science. He specializes in the areas of cybersecurity and applied cryptography. He is the author of five books on information and computer security.
