Bio
Alex Abdo (@AlexanderAbdo) is a former Senior Staff Attorney in the ACLU's Speech, Privacy and Technology Project. Prior to joining SPT, Alex was an attorney with the National Security Project, where he was involved in the litigation of cases concerning the Patriot Act, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, and the treatment of detainees in Guantánamo Bay, Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Navy brig in South Carolina. Alex is a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School. Prior to working at the ACLU, he served as a law clerk to the Hon. Barbara M.G. Lynn, United States District Judge for the Northern District of Texas, and to the Hon. Rosemary Barkett, United States Circuit Judge for the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Featured work
Oct 8, 2014
VIDEO: Yes, Mass Collection of U.S. Phone Records Violates the Constitution
Sep 29, 2014
New Documents Shed Light on One of the NSA's Most Powerful Tools
Sep 2, 2014
Challenge to NSA’s Mass Surveillance Inches Way Up Court System
Jul 11, 2014
How the NSA Got Away with Spying on American–Muslim Civil Rights Activists
Jul 2, 2014
The Privacy Oversight Board Should Have Listened to Senator Obama
Jan 24, 2014
Three Things to Know About the Government Privacy Report on NSA Spying
Jan 17, 2014
Annotated: The Most Important Passage from President Obama's NSA Speech