Albert Gidari is the Director of Privacy at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, where he leads the center’s work on consumer privacy and data protection. He was a partner for over 20 years at Perkins Coie LLP and a top-ranked privacy lawyer by Chambers USA. He negotiated the first-ever “privacy by design” consent decree with the Federal Trade Commission. A recognized expert on electronic surveillance law, he brought the first public lawsuit before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, seeking the right of providers to disclose the volume of national security demands received and the number of affected user accounts, ultimately resulting in greater public disclosure of such requests. Mr. Gidari earned an LLM from University of Washington School of Law, his law degree from George Mason University School of Law, and his undergraduate degree from Tulane University.