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Paula Bruening

Center for Democracy & Technology

Paula Bruening is Staff Counsel for the Center for Democracy and Technology. CDT is a non-profit, public interest organization that is dedicated to developing and implementing public policies to protect civil liberties and democratic values on the Internet. In her work at CDT she focuses on privacy and defense of the First Amendment on the Internet.

Prior to her arrival at CDT, she was the Director of Compliance and Policy for TRUSTe, the online privacy seal program, where she was responsible for compliance and for working with the government on evolving privacy policy. While with TRUSTe, she served on the Federal Trade Commission Advisory Committee on Access and Security. Before that, Ms. Bruening was Senior Attorney-Advisor for the Office of Chief Counsel, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, US Department of Commerce, where she worked closely with the White House to advise the Clinton Administration on a wide range of domestic and international electronic commerce and Internet issues.

She began her work in information policy at the US Congress Office of Technology Assessment, where she authored Protecting Privacy in Computerized Medical Information, and was co-author of Information Security and Privacy in Networked Environments and Finding a Balance: Computer Software, Intellectual Property and the Challenge of Technological Change. Ms Bruening served as an onsite consultant to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris, France, and has written and spoken extensively on information policy issues in the US and in Europe. Her recent publications include Consumer Privacy In the Electronic Marketplace, and Is Privacy Possible in the 21st Century? published by the New School for Social Research.

Ms. Bruening began her career in the practice of intellectual property law with Cushman, Darby & Cushman in Washington, DC. She holds a bachelor's degree from John Carroll University and earned her law degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Law.

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Biography last updated June 23, 2006