Marc Rotenberg
Marc Rotenberg is executive director and founder of the Center for AI and Digital Policy, an independent non-profit organization, incorporated in Washington, D.C. Marc is the co-editor of The AI Policy Sourcebook, a member of the OECD Expert Group on AI, and helped draft the Universal Guidelines for AI. He teaches the GDPR and privacy law at Georgetown Law and Intro to AI at Georgetown University. Marc is a founding board member and former chair of the Public Interest Registry, which manages the.ORG domain.
Center for AI and Digital Policy
The Center for AI and Digital Policy aims to promote a better society, more fair, more just — "a world where technology promotes broad social inclusion based on fundamental rights, democratic institutions, and the rule of law." CAIDP began as a project of the Michael Dukakis Institute. CAIDP has provided AI policy advice to many organizations around the world, including the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, the American Law Institute, the Council of Europe Committee on AI, the Club de Madrid, the European Commission and the European Parliament, the European Law Institute, the G7 and the G20, the Global Partnership on AI, the Government of Colombia, the National Security Commission on AI, the National AI Advisory Committee, the Organization of American States, the US Office of Science and Technology Policy, and many others.In 2020, CAIDP published "Artificial Intelligence and Democratic Values," the first comparative review of national AI policies and practices. CAIDP also began publication of the CAIDP Update, and hosting monthly Conversations with AI policy experts, authors, and artists. In 2021, CAIDP launched the first AI policy clinic and issued certificates to a dozen participants who completed a course in AI policy analysis.
By the Fall of 2025, CAIDP had established a research network of more than 1,500 participants in 120 countries. There were over 1,500 applicants to the Fall 2025 AI Policy Group. The 2025 Artificial Intelligence and Democratic Values Index covered 80 countries and ran over 1,500 pages. There are now more than 90,000 subscribers to the weekly CAIDP Update and 85,000 followers on LinkedIn. According to LinkedIn, CAIDP ranked behind only the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI among the leading AI Policy organizations in the world.
EPIC
Marc Rotenberg was president and executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, an independent, public interest research center in Washington, D.C., which he co-founded in 1994. EPIC was involved with a wide range of civil liberties, consumer protection, and human rights issues. EPIC pursued several successful consumer privacy complaints with the US Federal Trade Commission, concerning Uber, Snapchat, WhatsApp, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Choicepoint. EPIC prevailed in significant Freedom of Information Act cases against the CIA, the DHS, the Dept. of Education, the FBI, the NSA, the ODNI, and the TSA. EPIC filed many "friend of the court" briefs on law and technology, including Riley v. California, and litigated important privacy cases, including EPIC v. DHS, which led to the removal of the x-ray body scanners in US airports, and EPIC v. NSA, which led to the release of the NSA's formerly secret cybersecurity authority. EPIC also challenged the NSA's domestic surveillance program in a petition to the US Supreme Court, In re EPIC, after the release of the "Verizon Order" in June 2013. One of EPIC's cases concerned the obligation of the Federal Aviation Administration to establish privacy regulations prior to the deployment of commercial drones in the United States. EPIC v. FAA.In 2017, EPIC launched a project on Democracy and Cybersecurity to determine the extent of Russian interference with the 2016 Presidential election and to prevent future attacks on democratic institutions. EPIC pursued four Freedom of Information Act lawsuits. In EPIC v. ODNI, EPIC sought the public release of the report of the Intelligence Community on the Russian interference with the 2016 election. In EPIC v. FBI, EPIC sought records concerning the Bureau's response to an attack by a foreign government on the political institutions of the United States. In EPIC v. IRS, EPIC sought the release of Donald Trump's tax returns. In EPIC v. DHS, EPIC helped determine the role of DHS in election integrity. At the 2017 EPIC Champion of Freedom Awards Dinner in Washington, DC, EPIC honored former world chess champion, author, and human rights advocate Garry Kasparov In EPIC v. Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity EPIC successfully blocked the "Kobach Commission" from obtaining state voter data. EPIC charged that the commission had failed to undertake a privacy impact assessment, required by law. Exactly six months after EPIC filed suit, the commission was disbanded. Under court order resulting from EPIC's case, the White House subsequently deleted the voter data that was wrongfully obtained.
Marc was forced out of his position at EPIC. Marc filed suit against EPIC in DC Superior Court and received a settlement. Marc subsequently filed a 76-page complaint in Federal District Court against The Protocol and POLITICO, the parent company. In support of his claims, he cited an opinion of future Supreme Court Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson. In October 2021, POLITICO was sold to Axel Springer. In November 2022, the Protocol was shuttered. In March 2023, a federal court dismissed the case.
Advisory panels
Marc Rotenberg has served on many national and international advisory panels, including the expert panels on Cryptography Policy and Computer Security for the OECD, the Legal Experts on Cyberspace Law for UNESCO, and the Countering Spam program of the ITU. He is a former chair of the ABA Committee on Privacy and Information Protection. He is a member of the International Working Group on Data Protection in Telecommunications, the FREE Group, and other organizations dedicated to the protection of fundamental rights.In 2021, Rotenberg was named to the Reference Panel of the Global Privacy Assembly and the CAHAI. In May, he was shortlisted for the post of UN Special Rapporteur for the Right to Privacy. In June, he received the ACM Policy Award for “long-standing high impact leadership on privacy and technology policy.” In December, Rotenberg was named as an expert for the Global Partnership on AI for a three-year term and also a Fulbright Specialist for a four-year term. Marc was recently named to expert panels for the Center for European Policy Studies, the OECD, and the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs.