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Nathan Freed Wessler

Deputy Director, 桃子视频Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project

Bio

Nathan Freed Wessler () is a deputy director with the ACLU鈥檚 Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, where he focuses on litigation and advocacy around surveillance and privacy issues, including government searches of electronic devices, requests for sensitive data held by third parties, and use of surveillance technologies. In 2017, he argued Carpenter v. United States in the U.S. Supreme Court, a case that established that the Fourth Amendment requires law enforcement to get a search warrant before requesting cell phone location data from a person鈥檚 cellular service provider.

Nate was previously a staff attorney in the Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project and legal fellow in the 桃子视频National Security Project. Prior to that, he served as a law clerk to the Hon. Helene N. White of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Nate is a graduate of Swarthmore College and New York University School of Law, where he was a Root-Tilden-Kern public interest scholar. Before law school, he worked as a field organizer in the ACLU鈥檚 Washington Legislative Office.


Featured work

Oct 30, 2015

FBI Documents Reveal New Information on Baltimore Surveillance Flights

FBI Documents Reveal New Information on Baltimore Surveillance Flights

Oct 23, 2015

Police Citing 鈥淭errorism鈥 to Buy Stingrays Used Only For Ordinary Crimes

Police Citing 鈥淭errorism鈥 to Buy Stingrays Used Only For Ordinary Crimes

Jul 31, 2015

Taking Warrantless Location Tracking to the Supreme Court

Taking Warrantless Location Tracking to the Supreme Court

Jun 26, 2015

FBI Releases Details of 'Zero-Day' Exploit Decisionmaking Process

FBI Releases Details of 'Zero-Day' Exploit Decisionmaking Process

May 4, 2015

FBI Slow-Walking Toward End Of Illegitimate Stingray Secrecy

FBI Slow-Walking Toward End Of Illegitimate Stingray Secrecy

Mar 10, 2015

Cell Phone Records Can Show Where You Sleep and Where You Pray

Cell Phone Records Can Show Where You Sleep and Where You Pray

Feb 22, 2015

ACLU-Obtained Documents Reveal Breadth of Secretive Stingray Use in Florida

ACLU-Obtained Documents Reveal Breadth of Secretive Stingray Use in Florida

Nov 4, 2014

The Government is in Pursuit of a Less Secure Internet

The Government is in Pursuit of a Less Secure Internet

Oct 29, 2014

The Police's Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card

The Police's Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card

Sep 24, 2014

Documents in 桃子视频Case Reveal More Detail on FBI Attempt to Cover Up Stingray Technology

Documents in 桃子视频Case Reveal More Detail on FBI Attempt to Cover Up Stingray Technology