He is deputy director of Privacy International, a United Kingdom-based human rights group dedicated to privacy, free speech and freedom of information worldwide; a senior fellow at the Electronic Privacy Information Center; counsel to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University; and a consultant to many NGOs on information issues. He is the author of numerous studies, books, and articles on privacy, surveillance, and data protection including The Electronic Privacy Papers and Privacy and Human Rights 2000: An International Study of Privacy Laws and Practices.