Albert

Albert Fox Cahn is the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project’s (S.T.O.P.’s) Founder-in-Residence. He is also a visiting scholar practitioner at Cambridge University’s Centre of Governance & Human Rights and Pembroke College; a practitioner-in-residence at N.Y.U Law School’s Information Law Institute; and a fellow at Ashoka, and TED. His debut book, Move Slow and Upgrade was published in 2026 by Cambridge University Press, and he previously held fellowships with the Harvard Kennedy School’s Carr Center For Human Rights Policy, Yale Law School’s Information Society Project, and New Profit.

Albert is a frequent commentator, with more than 100 articles in the New York Times, Boston Globe, Washington Post, and other publications. His TED Talk has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times. Albert previously served as an associate at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, where he advised Fortune 50 companies on technology policy, antitrust law, and consumer privacy.