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Julian Sanchez

Julian Sanchez (@normative) is a senior fellow at Cato and focuses primarily on issues at the busy intersection of technology, privacy, civil liberties, and new media — but also writes more broadly about political philosophy and social psychology. Before joining Cato, Sanchez served as the Washington Editor for the technology news site Ars Technica, where he covered surveillance, intellectual property, and telecom policy. Prior to that, he was an assistant editor for Reason magazine, where he remains a contributing editor. Sanchez’s writing has appeared in The Los Angeles Times, The American Prospect, Reason, The Guardian, Techdirt, The American Spectator, and Hispanic, among others, and he blogs regularly for The Economist’s Democracy in America. Sanchez studied philosophy and political science at New York University. Sanchez is also on LinkedIn.

Areas of Expertise: Technology, Privacy, Civil Liberties, Surveillance

Selected Media Appearances
Television
New NSA Allegations – Al Jazeera America
Edward Snowden and NSA surveillance – MSNBC (All In with Chris Hayes)
Julian Sanchez discusses FISA – CNN (The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer)

Radio
NSA spying on TORWWL (The Think Tank)
Your Digital Trail: Data Fuels Political And Legal Agendas – NPR (All Things Considered)
Julian Sanchez discusses Edward Snowden  – CNN Radio

Online
White House considers appointing civilian NSA chief amid calls for reform – The Guardian
Feinstein gives the NSA what it wants – MSNBC
Where’s the oversight on NSA spying? – Politico

Articles by this author:

A life-size Lego Bat-signal shines up from the convention floor during WonderCon 2016 at the Los Angeles Convention Center on March 25, 2016 in Los Angeles, California.
A mural depicting a winking Vladimir Putin taking off his Donald Trump mask is painted on a storefront outside of the Levee bar in Brooklyn on February 25, 2017 in New York City.
An empty glass and a nametag reading, “Hon. James B. Comey, Jr.” lie on a desk before the start of a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on the FBI on May 3, 2017.
Hands type on a keyboard. Blue coding appears on the screen.
The entrance to the J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton testifies on the Law of the Sea Convention before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in Washington, D.C., May 23, 2012.
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