CLE Seminar Speaker

Douglas Klunder

Douglas Klunder is the Privacy Project Director at the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington.

His original training is in Computer Science, with a B.S. from MIT. He spent over 10 years in software development at Microsoft, where he was the lead developer for the first versions of Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Money. More recently, he received a J.D. degree from the University of Washington School of Law, where he was the 2002 Honor Graduate.

He combines his technology and legal backgrounds in work on privacy issues for the ACLU. He concentrates on informational privacy (e.g., public records, data mining, medical privacy) and technological threats to privacy (e.g., biometrics and surveillance). Work includes legislative analysis and advocacy, litigation and other legal advocacy, and public education.