Nate Cardozo

{{short description|American privacy and civil rights lawyer}}

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Nate Cardozo is an American privacy engineer and former privacy and civil rights lawyer.{{Cite web|url=http://www.rsaconference.com/speakers/nate-cardozo|title=Nate Cardozo {{!}} RSA Conference|website=www.rsaconference.com|language=en|access-date=2019-02-01}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.meritalk.com/articles/facebook-ramps-up-cybersecurity-staff/|title=Facebook Ramps up Cybersecurity Staff – MeriTalk|language=en-US|access-date=2019-02-01}} He spent much of his career as a staff attorney at the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), where his portfolio included cybersecurity,{{Cite web|url=https://www.eff.org/about/staff/nate-cardozo|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190202001405/https://www.eff.org/about/staff/nate-cardozo|url-status=dead|archive-date=2019-02-02|title=Nate Cardozo|date=2018-03-20|website=Electronic Frontier Foundation|language=en|access-date=2019-02-01}} privacy litigation, and protecting coders' rights.{{Cite web|url=https://boingboing.net/2019/01/29/whatsapp.html|title=New privacy hires at WhatsApp: Nate Cardozo (EFF), Robyn Greene (Open Technology Institute)|website=Boing Boing|date=30 January 2019 |language=en-US|access-date=2019-02-01}}{{Cite web|url=https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/01/facebook-just-hired-a-handful-of-its-toughest-privacy-critics/|title=Facebook just hired a handful of its toughest privacy critics|last=Farivar|first=Cyrus|date=2019-01-30|website=Ars Technica|language=en-us|access-date=2019-02-01}} His practice focused on encryption and information security.{{Cite web|url=https://www.justsecurity.org/author/cardozonate/|title=Just Security - Author Page - Nate Cardozo|website=Just Security|language=en-US|access-date=2019-02-01}}

In January 2019, Cardozo left EFF to join Facebook as the privacy policy manager of WhatsApp.{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-hires-privacy-critics/|title=Facebook Hires Up Three of Its Biggest Privacy Critics|last=Dreyfuss|first=Emily|date=2019-01-30|magazine=Wired|access-date=2019-02-01|issn=1059-1028}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.adweek.com/digital/nate-cardozo-is-going-from-scrutinizing-whatsapp-to-working-for-it/|title=Nate Cardozo Is Going From Scrutinizing WhatsApp to Working for It|last=Cohen|first=David|website=www.adweek.com|language=en-US|access-date=2019-02-01}}

Then in July 2022, he left Facebook (by then known as Meta), and left the law entirely. He joined Google as a Senior Staff Privacy Engineer, working on end-to-end encryption on Android.{{Cite web|url=https://www.linkedin.com/posts/natecardozo_friends-some-personal-and-professional-news-activity-6950216454260613121-uR_n|title=LinkedIn Note}}