Five Years Out: Jeramie Scott ’12 discusses his career in privacy and national security law

“Five years after graduating from law school, Jeramie Scott ’12 serves as national security counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and works on some of today’s most pressing privacy issues. He has helped EPIC file high-profile amicus briefs in the US Supreme Court on issues concerning government surveillance. This has included an amicus brief in Clapper v. Amnesty International USA, a case concerning whether public interest organizations, journalists, and lawyers could challenge the constitutionality of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, which gave the government broad authority to intercept and collect communications involving US persons. Later this year, Scott will also publish a research paper that examines how the US government uses private sector social media monitoring companies in the surveillance of private citizens, including groups such as Black Lives Matter protesters.”