Nationality English Education University of Oxford | Spouse Quinn Norton | |
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Occupation Activist Coordinator, Electronic Frontier Foundation Similar Quinn Norton, Mitchell Kapor, Brian Behlendorf, Cindy Cohn | ||
Danny O'Brien (born 1969) is an English technology journalist and civil liberties activist. He is the International Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Career
He wrote weekly columns for the Sunday Times and the Irish Times; and before that for The Guardian, and acted as a consultant in helping The Guardian formulate its online strategy. He worked for the UK edition of Wired, as well as for Channel 4 and the British ISP Virgin.net. Together with Dave Green, he founded and wrote the now-defunct email newsletter Need To Know.
In May 2005, he succeeded Ren Bucholz as Activist Coordinator for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and then became EFF's International Outreach Coordinator. In April 2010, he moved to a new position as Internet Advocacy Coordinator for the Committee to Protect Journalists. In February 2013, he became the Director of the International Department at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
O'Brien also set up a pledge on PledgeBank to help coordinate the establishment of "an organisation that will campaign for digital rights in the UK", which led to the creation of the Open Rights Group.
He appeared at Wikimania 2014.
Family
O'Brien was married to Quinn Norton.