Staff Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation Nate is a Staff Attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a non-profit organization based in San Francisco, California dedicated to defending users’ rights in the digital world. As a lawyer on the EFF’s civil liberties team, he focuses his work on the intersection of technology, privacy, and free expression. Nate has defended the rights of anonymous bloggers, sued the United States government for access to improperly classified documents, and lobbied Congress for sensible reform of American surveillance laws. In addition, he works on EFF's Coders’ Rights Project, counseling hackers and security professionals, and manages EFF’s Who Has Your Back? report on corporate transparency.Nate has projects involving automotive privacy, government transparency, hardware hacking rights, anonymous speech, Freedom of Information Act litigation, and resisting the expansion of the surveillance state. A 2009-2010 EFF Open Government Legal Fellow, Nate spent two years in private practice before returning to his senses and to EFF in 2012. Nate has a B.A. in Anthropology and Politics from U.C. Santa Cruz and a J.D. from U.C. Hastings where he has taught first-year legal writing and moot court.