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Erica Portnoy

Senior Staff Technologist

Erica Portnoy is a Senior Staff Technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation focused on encryption, privacy-enhancing technologies, and the impact of emerging technologies and regulations on users’ rights. Erica has contributed to EFF’s technical research and advocacy on secure communications, online privacy, and freedom of expression. She also works on Certbot, EFF’s open-source tool for automating HTTPS certificate management, and on age assurance, examining the technical and policy challenges of systems designed to verify or estimate users’ ages online. Her work highlights how technology and policy choices can affect privacy, anonymity, security, and free expression.

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