Nate Cardozo Explained

Nate Cardozo
Birth Date:	Nathan Cardozo
Nationality:	American
Alma Mater:	University of California Santa Cruz University of California, Hastings
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Nate Cardozo is an American privacy engineer and former privacy and civil rights lawyer.^{[1] [2]} He spent much of his career as a staff attorney at the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), where his portfolio included cybersecurity,^[3] privacy litigation, and protecting coders' rights.^{[4] [5]} His practice focused on encryption and information security.^[6]

In January 2019, Cardozo left EFF to join Facebook as the privacy policy manager of WhatsApp.^{[7] [8]}

Then in July 2022, he left Facebook (by then known as Meta), and left the law entirely. He joined Google as a Senior Staff Privacy Engineer, working on end-to-end encryption on Android.^[9]

See also

• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Encryption

External links

• Cardozo's blog posts on the EFF DeepLinks blog

Notes and References

1. Web site: Nate Cardozo RSA Conference. www.rsaconference.com. en. 2019-02-01.
2. Web site: Facebook Ramps up Cybersecurity Staff – MeriTalk. en-US. 2019-02-01.
3. Web site: Nate Cardozo. https://web.archive.org/web/20190202001405/https://www.eff.org/about/staff/nate-cardozo. dead. 2019-02-02. 2018-03-20. Electronic Frontier Foundation. en. 2019-02-01.
4. Web site: New privacy hires at WhatsApp: Nate Cardozo (EFF), Robyn Greene (Open Technology Institute). Boing Boing. 30 January 2019 . en-US. 2019-02-01.
5. Web site: Facebook just hired a handful of its toughest privacy critics. Farivar. Cyrus. 2019-01-30. Ars Technica. en-us. 2019-02-01.
6. Web site: Just Security - Author Page - Nate Cardozo. Just Security. en-US. 2019-02-01.
7. Facebook Hires Up Three of Its Biggest Privacy Critics. Dreyfuss. Emily. 2019-01-30. Wired. 2019-02-01. 1059-1028.
8. Web site: Nate Cardozo Is Going From Scrutinizing WhatsApp to Working for It. Cohen. David. www.adweek.com. en-US. 2019-02-01.
9. Web site: LinkedIn Note.