Commercial Surveillance and Data Security 

Public Forum 

SEPTEMBER 8. 2022 

SPEAKER BIOS 

Panel 1: Industry Perspectives on Commercial Surveillance and Data 

Security 

Jason Kint is CEO of Digital Content Next, the only trade association to exclusively serve the unique and 

diverse needs of high-quality digital content companies that manage trusted, direct relationships with 

consumers and marketers. Jason guides DCN’s diverse and powerful group of members — established 

brands such as The New York Times, Hearst and ESPN, and digital natives, such as Vox, Politico and 

WebMD — into the future setting the agenda on a range of issues including subscriptions models, 

public policy and video streaming. Jason also serves as Chairman of TRUSTX, a cooperative digital 

advertising marketplace designed to address the industry’s trust, transparency and accountability 

challenges in digital advertising. TRUSTX is a wholly-owned subsidiary of DCN operating as a public 

benefit corporation. A 25-year veteran of the digital media industry, Jason led the evolution of CBS 

Sports into a multi-platform brand breaking new ground in streaming many of the largest events on 

the Internet. Kint previously served in various executive roles launching and leading the websites for all 

of Times Mirror Magazines’ flagship websites under the ownership of Times Mirror, Paul Allen and 

later Condé Nast. 

Marshall Erwin is the Chief Security Officer at Mozilla. He leads the team responsible for protecting 

Mozilla and its users, responding to cybersecurity incidents and ensuring the company builds secure 

products. He is also responsible for cybersecurity policy and leads Mozilla’s policy work on 

misinformation, malicious content, and reforms to the advertising industry. Marshall joined Mozilla in 

2014 and has held several roles focused on privacy and security. Most recently, he was the Senior 

Director of Trust & Security, overseeing the implementation of Firefox’s privacy and security features 

that protect users from threats online. Previously, he served as Mozilla’s Head of Privacy, leading 

incident response and crisis communications for security and data breach incidents and overseeing 

implementation of global privacy regulations. Prior to Mozilla, Marshall began his career with the 

United States Government, where he focused on counterterrorism and cybersecurity. He also served 

as the counterterrorism and intelligence adviser on the Senate Homeland Security and Government 

Affairs Committee and as the intelligence specialist at the Congressional Research Service, focusing on 

National Security Agency surveillance leaks and legislative changes to FISA. 

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Paul Martino serves as Vice President and Senior Policy Counsel at the National Retail Federation, the 

world’s largest retail trade association. Retail is the nation’s largest private-sector employer, 

contributing $3.9 trillion to annual GDP and supporting one in four U.S. jobs — 52 million working 

Americans. For over a century, NRF has been a voice for every retailer and every retail job, educating, 

inspiring and communicating the powerful impact retail has on local communities and global 

economies. Martino is responsible for developing and implementing federal legislative and regulatory 

advocacy efforts on a range of e-commerce and consumer protection policy issues, most notably, data 

privacy and security. With nearly 30 years of industry, government and legal experience, Martino is 

known as a leading industry strategist on a range of Internet, telecommunications and technology 

policy issues. Before joining NRF, Martino co-chaired the privacy and data security practice of Alston & 

Bird LLP, representing businesses, trade associations and coalitions before Congress, federal 

departments and independent agencies on data privacy, cybersecurity, e-commerce, 

telecommunications, financial services and intellectual property issues. While in private practice, 

Martino was named a national leader in privacy and data security law every year from 2008 to 2014 by 

the leading publication ranking American business lawyers, “Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers 

for Business.” Prior to joining Alston & Bird, Martino served as a principal advisor to Chairman John 

McCain and the lead counsel on Internet, technology and privacy issues for the U.S. Senate Committee 

on Commerce, Science and Transportation. He came to the Senate after beginning his career in the 

early 1990s advising startup and newly public technology companies on corporate and transactional 

matters in Silicon Valley. Martino graduated with honors from Georgetown University with a bachelor’s 

degree in government and earned his law degree at the University of California, Berkeley. 

Rebecca Finlay is the CEO at the non-profit Partnership on AI. In this role, Rebecca leads PAI's missionfocused strategy in support of a global community of partners from civil society, academia, and 

industry who are working together so that developments in AI contribute to positive outcomes for 

people and society. Most recently, Rebecca was Vice President, Engagement and Public Policy at CIFAR. 

In this role, Rebecca founded the Institute’s global knowledge mobilization practice, bringing together 

experts in industry, civil society, and government to accelerate the societal impact of CIFAR’s research 

programs. In 2017, she was responsible for the launch of CIFAR’s AI & Society program to support 

international working groups on the questions AI poses for all aspects of policy and society. In 2019, 

she launched CIFAR Solution Networks to support multi-year, international teams in the development 

of responsible approaches to real-world applications of AI. She led CIFAR’s partnerships with 

governments and public sector organizations, diversifying the organization’s funding sources 

internationally. Prior to joining CIFAR, Rebecca held leadership roles in research and civil society 

organizations including as Group Director, Public Affairs and Cancer Control for the Canadian Cancer 

Society and National Cancer Institute of Canada. She began her career in the private sector building 

strategic partnerships, including as First Vice President, Financial Institution and Partnership Marketing 

for Bank One International. In 2019, Rebecca was honored as a Fellow of the American Association for 

the Advancement of Science (AAAS). She holds degrees from the University of Cambridge and McGill 

University. She is an active volunteer and lives with her family in Toronto, Canada. 

Susan Cooper is Vice President, Privacy Strategy & Planning at Meta, where she leads teams within 

Meta’s Privacy & Data Practices Organization focused on responding to Meta’s global regulatory 

obligations. Susan joined Meta in 2011; prior to her current role, she spent seven years leading product 

counseling teams that advised Meta on the development, launch and marketing of its advertising and 

commerce products. In 2018, she transitioned to leading the privacy counseling teams responsible for 

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advising Meta on privacy laws and engaging with regulators on privacy matters. Before joining Meta, 

Susan was Senior Advertising and Marketing Counsel at Yahoo. From 2003-2007, Susan served as a 

Staff Attorney in the FTC’s Division of Privacy and Identity Protection, where she enforced privacy and 

consumer protection laws, and the Office of International Affairs, where she represented the Agency in 

various international forums, such as the OECD, and supported work formulating FTC policy on privacy 

and security-related legislative and policy initiatives. Susan began her career at Mintz Levin in 

Washington DC working on privacy, regulatory and litigation matters. 

Panel 2: Consumer Advocate Perspectives on Commercial Surveillance and 

Data Security 

Caitriona Fitzgerald is Deputy Director at the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC). Caitriona 

leads EPIC’s policy work, working to advance strong privacy, open government, and algorithmic 

fairness and accountability laws at both the state and federal level, and has testified before Congress 

and state legislatures on these issues. Before joining EPIC, Caitriona served as Chief of Staff to 

Massachusetts State Senator Barry Finegold. She received her J.D. from Northeastern University School 

of Law and earned her bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the State University of New York at 

Geneseo. 

Harlan Yu is the Executive Director of Upturn. Based in Washington D.C., Upturn advances equity and 

justice in the design, governance, and use of technology. Through research and advocacy, Upturn 

drives policy changes to address the disproportionate impact of new technologies across a range of 

longstanding civil rights areas, including policing and surveillance, employment, housing, and public 

benefits. Harlan has extensive experience working at the intersection of technology and policy, having 

previously held roles at Google, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Labor. 

Harlan holds a PhD in computer science from Princeton University, and a BS in electrical engineering 

and computer science from UC Berkeley. 

Karen Kornbluh leads the Digital Innovation and Democracy Initiative at the German Marshall Fund of 

the U.S. Her previous service as U.S. Ambassador to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and 

Development in Paris was featured in a New York Times profile entitled “Fighting for Economic 

Equality.” There, she spearheaded the first global Internet Policymaking Principles and launched the 

OECD Gender Initiative. Kornbluh was Barack Obama’s policy director in the Senate and served in 

senior roles at the U.S Department of the Treasury and Federal Communications Commission, where 

she led the effort to enact the E-Rate, the almost $4 billion program to connect schools and libraries to 

the internet. She began her career in the private sector as an economist at forecasting firm TownsendGreenspan and later held the position of executive vice president at the global data firm Nielsen. She 

has published widely on technology policy, including in Foreign Affairs, The Information, The 

Washington Post, and the New York Times, and testifies regularly before the U.S. Congress and 

European Parliament. She is a Washingtonian “top influencer” and a lifetime member of the Council on 

Foreign Relations. Kornbluh chairs the boards of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and the Open 

Technology Fund. 

Spencer Overton is the President of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, which 

was founded in 1970 and is America’s Black think tank. He is also a tenured Professor of Law at 

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George Washington University in Washington, DC. Spencer is the author of the book Stealing 

Democracy: The New Politics of Voter Suppression (W.W. Norton) and several academic articles and 

popular commentaries on voting rights, race, and public policy, including State Power to Regulate 

Social Media Companies to Prevent Voter Suppression, 53 U.C. Davis Law Review 1793 (2020). He has 

testified about disinformation online before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy 

and Commerce (Communications and Technology and the Consumer Protection and Commerce 

Subcommittees) and the House Administration Committee (Elections Subcommittee). He also 

submitted comments to the Federal Communications Commission opposing the Trump 

Administration's petition to prod the FCC to adopt rules that would discourage online platforms 

from removing disinformation that suppresses Black votes and other objectionable material. 

Spencer led the 2008 Obama transition team's Election Assistance Commission agency review 

group, and during the Obama Administration he served as Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney 

General in the Office of Legal Policy (the “think tank” of the Department of Justice). In that 

position, he partnered with White House officials to lead the Administration’s policy efforts on 

democracy issues, including conceptualizing and/or implementing policies related to the Military 

and Overseas Voter Empowerment Act, the National Voter Registration Act, and the Voting 

Rights Act. Spencer has also practiced law at the firm Debevoise & Plimpton, clerked for U.S. Court of 

Appeals Judge Damon J. Keith, and graduated with honors from both Hampton University 

and Harvard Law School. 

Stacey Gray Stacey Gray is the Senior Director for U.S. Policy at the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) and 

supports FPF’s U.S. engagement for consumer privacy research, analysis, and policymaker education. 

At FPF, she has spent many years focusing on the privacy implications of data collection in online and 

mobile advertising, platform regulation, cross-device tracking, Smart Homes, and the Internet of 

Things, including publishing extensive work and providing Congressional testimony on the intersection 

of emerging technologies and federal privacy regulation and enforcement. Stacey graduated from the 

University of Florida in 2010, and cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center in 2015, during 

which she worked in privacy-related civil rights litigation as a law clerk for Victor M. Glasberg & 

Associates, and as a member of the civil rights division of the Institute for Public Representation. 

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