Alissa Cooper is the Chief Computer Scientist at the Center for Democracy and Technology. Her work focuses on a range of issues including consumer privacy, spyware, digital copyright, network neutrality, and identity management. She conducts research into the inner workings of common and emerging Internet technologies, and seeks to explain complex technical concepts in understandable terms. She has testified before Congress and the Federal Trade Commission and writes regularly on a variety of technology policy topics.

Alissa moved to the Washington area after completing her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Computer Science at Stanford University. There her work focused on computer security issues and their policy implications.

2008 Publications:

• Alissa Cooper, "A Survey of Query Log Privacy-Enhancing Techniques from a Policy Perspective," ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB), vol. 2, issue 4, Oct. 2008
• Testimony of Alissa Cooper before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, "What Your Broadband Provider Knows About Your Web Use: Deep Packet Inspection and Communications Laws and Policies," July 2008
• Marit Hansen, Ari Schwartz, Alissa Cooper, "Privacy and Identity Management," IEEE Security and Privacy, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 38-45, Mar/Apr 2008