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Biographical Data
John B. Morris, Jr. is General Counsel at the Center for Democracy
& Technology, and the Director of CDT's "Internet Standards, Technology
and Policy Project." Prior to joining CDT in 2001, Mr. Morris was
a partner in the law firm of Jenner & Block, where he litigated
groundbreaking cases in Internet and First Amendment law. He was
a lead counsel in the ACLU v. Reno/American Library Association
v. U.S. Dep't of Justice case, in which the Supreme Court unanimously
overturned the Communications Decency Act of 1996 and extended to
speech on the Internet the highest level of constitutional protection.
In addition to his legal background, Mr. Morris has worked with
computers since the 1970s, and in the early 1980s he co-founded
a successful company to provide computer services to Congressional
offices. More recently, as part of CDT's "Standards Project," Morris
has actively participated in the work of the Internet Engineering
Task Force, including the IETF's "GeoPriv" group working on location
privacy in wireless and voice over IP contexts. On data confidentiality,
he most recently presented at a workshop on Search Query Log Analysis
at the WWW2007 conference. Mr. Morris received his B.A. magna cum
laude with distinction from Yale University and his J.D. from Yale
Law School, where he was the Managing Editor of the Yale Law Journal.
Following law school, he clerked for Judge Thomas A. Clark of the
Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, worked for three years as a staff
attorney at the Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta, Georgia,
and then joined Jenner & Block in 1990.
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