Bio
Neema Singh Guliani is a former senior legislative counsel with the American Civil Liberties Union, focusing on surveillance, privacy, and national security issues. She served from 2013 to 2020.
Prior to joining the ACLU, she worked in the Chief of Staff’s Office at DHS, concentrating on national security and civil rights issues. She has also worked as an adjudicator in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights in the Department of Agriculture and was an investigative counsel with House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, where she conducted investigations related to the BP oil spill, contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the Recovery Act. Neema is a graduate of Brown University where she earned a BA in International Relations with a focus on global security and received her JD from Harvard Law School in 2008.
Featured work
![Hacker coding on laptop](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/web16-blog-hacker-1160x768-400x266.jpg)
May 19, 2016
The Government’s Hacking Powers Are About to Grow Exponentially
![Tech tunnel](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/web16-blog-techtunnel-1160x768-400x266.jpg)
Mar 9, 2016
4 Problems With Creating a ‘Commission on Encryption’
![NSA headquarters](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/web15-blog-nsa-headquarters-1160x768_0-400x266.jpg)
Feb 4, 2016
Questions Congress Should Ask About Section 702
![Code Satellite Dish - EO 12,333](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/web15-codesatellitedish-1160x768-400x266.jpg)
Jan 13, 2016
What President Obama Can Do to Stop US Dragnet Surveillance Around the World
![Graphic of laptop computer](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/blog15-natlsectyeye-1160x768-400x266.png)
Dec 18, 2015
How Your Information Could Soon End up in the Hands of the NSA — and What You Can Do About It
![Stop Mass Spying; End Mass Surveillance](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/web15-surveillancepatriotact-featureimage-1160x773-400x266.jpg)
Nov 19, 2015
Renewed Calls for More Surveillance Aren’t Based in Reality
![NSA headquarters](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/web15-blog-nsa-headquarters-1160x768-400x266.jpg)
Oct 29, 2015
The NSA Claims It Wants to Be Transparent. How About Starting With Section 702?
![Radio tower with radio waves](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/radio_tower_by_lucas_credit-400x266.jpg)
Oct 22, 2015
The Four Biggest Problems With DHS’s New Stingray Policy
![Decryption Cloud](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/blog15-decryptioncloud-1160x768-400x266.jpg)
Jul 9, 2015
Should Companies Be Forced to Enable Surveillance and Compromise Security? The Government Thinks So.