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Former Staff

Jake Laperruque

Senior Policy Counsel, The Constitution Project

Areas of Expertise

Government surveillance, privacy, policing practices, democratic governance, civil liberties

Jake Laperruque is Senior Policy Counsel at The Constitution Project at POGO.  He oversees work on privacy, surveillance, and cybersecurity issues, highlighting how emerging technologies are rapidly impacting Constitutional rights and principles.  His work focuses on foreign intelligence surveillance, location privacy, cellphone privacy, facial recognition, aerial surveillance, and election security. Previously, Jake worked as the Fellow on Privacy, Surveillance, and Security at the Center for Democracy & Technology and as a Program Fellow at the Open Technology Institute.  He also served as a Law Clerk on the Senate Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law. Jake is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Washington University in St. Louis.

Latest Work

  • How to Protect Yourself from Surveillance While Seeking Reproductive Health Care

    analysis | May 25, 2022

  • Sidebar: A Seismic Moment

    analysis | May 5, 2022

  • Executive Order 12333: The Spy Power Too Big for Any Legal Limits

    analysis | March 24, 2022

  • POGO Testimony on Maryland Face Recognition Legislation

    testimony | March 10, 2022

  • Next Steps After Stopping IRS Face Recognition

    analysis | February 17, 2022

  • Testimony in Support of Massachusetts Legislation to Regulate Face Surveillance

    testimony | November 23, 2021

  • Secrets, Surveillance, and Scandals: The War on Terror’s Unending Impact on Americans’ Private Lives

    analysis | September 7, 2021

  • Geofence Warrants: The Last Piece of the Location Privacy Puzzle

    analysis | August 25, 2021

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  • Civil liberties groups pressure White House to fill surveillance oversight board

    September 10, 2021

  • GAO: US Govt Expanding Use of Facial Recognition Technology

    August 29, 2021

  • An Explosion in Geofence Warrants Threatens Privacy Across the US

    August 27, 2021

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    August 25, 2021

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  • Garland sparks anger with willingness to side with Trump

    June 12, 2021

  • Dialogue informing biometrics regulation just getting started, says Ada Lovelace panel

    June 11, 2021

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