Alvaro Bedoya is the founding Executive Director of Georgetown Law’s Center on Privacy & Technology. He is an expert on digital privacy issues. His commentary has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Politico, and Slate. Prior to joining the Center, he served as Chief Counsel to United States Senator Al Franken on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law. In this role, he was the staff negotiator for significant portions of both the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 and the USA FREEDOM Act, a bipartisan surveillance reform bill.