IGF-USA 2022 Session

Beyond the Encrypted Content Debate

Thursday, July 21

11:00 AM – 12:15 PM EDT

What are the outcomes all stakeholders want in the encryption debate, beyond access or no access to encrypted content? With a clearer understanding of our different end goals, we will discuss measures, both technical and non-technical, to help move us all closer to our goals.

Darrin Jones

Assistant Director to Strategic Technology Policy Office, FBI

Mallory Knodel

CTO, Center for Democracy and Technology

John Morris

Principal, Internet Policy and Advocacy, Internet Society

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John Morris is the Principal, Internet Policy and Advocacy at the Internet Society. With a career in technology policy spanning the public, nonprofit, and private sectors, before joining the Internet Society, Morris held the position of senior non-resident fellow with the Center for Technology Innovation at the Brookings Institution, served under two presidential administrations as a career member of the Senior Executive Service at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), served as General Counsel of the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), and the Director of CDT’s Internet Standards, Technology and Policy Project. Earlier in his career, Morris was a partner in the law firm of Jenner & Block, where he litigated a wide variety of cases in Internet and First Amendment law and was one of the lead counsel 1997 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that speech on the Internet warranted the highest level of protection under the U.S. Constitution. Morris received his B.A. magna cum laude with distinction from Yale University and his J.D. from Yale Law School.

Yiota Souras

Senior Vice President, General Counsel, NCMEC

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Yiota Souras joined NCMEC in 2006 after seven years of experience with corporate litigation and white-collar investigations at international law firms in New York and Washington, D.C. Ms. Souras is responsible for all legal affairs of NCMEC including oversight of contractual, litigation, compliance, governance and intellectual property matters. She also advises NCMEC's President and CEO and staff members about legal issues pertaining to NCMEC's mission, provides counsel to the Board of Directors and serves as assistant corporate secretary to the Board. Ms. Souras received a Juris Doctor from Fordham University and a Bachelor of Arts from The Johns Hopkins University.

Moderator

Eric Geller

Politico

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Eric Geller is a Cybersecurity reporter at Politico. In this role he reports on cyber policy developments at the White House, the Department of Homeland Security, and other agencies. He also writes about election security, corporate data breaches, global malware outbreaks, and other cyber incidents.