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Fred H. Cate

Director
fcate@indiana.edu

Professor Fred H. Cate specializes in information privacy and security law issues. He speaks frequently about these issues before industry, professional, and government groups and testifies regularly before Congress.

He is a member of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Academic Advisory Board, the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Technical and Privacy Dimensions of Information for Terrorism Prevention and Other National Goals, and the Research Steering Committee of the Center for Identity Management and Information Protection. He also serves as reporter for the American Law Institute's project on Principles of the Law on Government Access to and Use of Personal Digital Information.

Cate is the author of many books and articles, including The Internet and the First Amendment, Privacy in the Information Age, and Privacy in Perspective, and he appears frequently in the popular press.

Cate is a Distinguished Professor and the C. Ben Dutton Professor of Law at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law. He is a co-director of the Center for Law, Ethics, and Applied Research in Health Information.