Onwards and Upwards
Today, Joe Newman, our former legal and policy fellow, started working as a privacy attorney at Electronic Arts, one of the largest video game companies in the world. While at FPF, Joe was vital to our projects reviewing the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor and the implementation of “Do Not Track,” but he identified early on some of the interesting legal and privacy issues in the gaming space. I was pleased to be able to collaborate with Joe on a paper scoping out some of these issues, and the end result, Press Start to Track: Privacy Questions Posed by Video Game Tech, is slated for publication this month. There’s no question Joe is well-positioned to the take the privacy world by storm at EA.
He also joins the long list of FPF alumni who have gone on to interesting positions across technology and privacy. Joe’s co-fellow, Sarah Gordon, left FPF to work in-house at Zillow, the West Coast-based online real estate database, and previous fellows have gone on to work at American Express, Nielsen, and Promontory, among other ports of call.
But as our alumni move onward and upward, FPF is always looking for new law graduates and would-be policy wonks to join us! If you are interested in joining us and applying to work as a fellow at FPF, please get in touch at [email protected].
-Joseph Jerome, Policy Counsel
