Marc Rotenberg

Marc Rotenberg (born April 20, 1960) is president and founder of the Center for AI and Digital Policy, an independent non-profit organization, incorporated in Washington, D.C.^[1] Rotenberg was the editor of The AI Policy Sourcebook,^[2] was a member of the OECD Expert Group on AI, and helped draft the Universal Guidelines for AI.^[3] He teaches the GDPR and privacy law at Georgetown Law and is coauthor of Privacy Law and Society (West Academic 2016) and The Privacy Law Sourcebook (2020). Rotenberg is a founding board member and former chair of the Public Interest Registry, which manages the .ORG domain.^{[citation needed]}

Marc Rotenberg
Born	April 20, 1960 (1960-04-20) (age 65) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Education	Harvard College Stanford Law School Georgetown University Law Center
Occupation(s)	President, Center for AI and Digital Policy; adjunct professor of law, Georgetown Law
Known for	AI policy, Privacy advocacy, Internet law, chess
Relatives	Jonathan Rotenberg (brother)

Center for AI and Digital Policy

The Center for AI and Digital Policy (CAIDP), of which Rotenberg is president, 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."^{[citation needed]} CAIDP has provided AI policy advice to many organizations around the world, including the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, the Council of Europe, the Club de Madrid, the European Commission and the European Parliament, the G7 and the G20, the Global Partnership on AI, the Government of Colombia, the Hiroshima AI Process, the International Bar Association, the OECD, the Organization of American States, the US Office of Science and Technology Policy, and many others.^{[citation needed]}

EPIC

Rotenberg was president and executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), an independent, public interest research center in Washington, D.C., which he co-founded in 1994.^{[citation needed]} EPIC was involved with a wide range of civil liberties, consumer protection, and human rights issues.^{[citation needed]}

Rotenberg was forced out of his position at EPIC in April 2020^[4] following allegations that "he had continued going to work, despite learning he might have" COVID-19.^[5] Rotenberg filed suit against EPIC in DC Superior Court. In October 2020, Rotenberg and EPIC stipulated to dismissal of the case. Rotenberg subsequently filed a 76-page complaint in Federal District Court against The Protocol and POLITICO, The Protocol's parent company.^[6] In March 2023, a federal court dismissed the case for lack of jurisdiction.^[7]

Advisory panels

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.^{[citation needed]} He is a former chair of the ABA Committee on Privacy and Information Protection.^{[citation needed]} He is a member of the International Working Group on Data Protection in Telecommunications, the FREE Group (European Area of Freedom Security & Justice), and other organizations dedicated to the protection of fundamental rights.^{[citation needed]}

In 2021, Rotenberg was named to the Reference Panel of the Global Privacy Assembly (the global network of privacy officials and experts) and the CAHAI (the AI expert panel of the Council of Europe).^{[citation needed]} In May, he was shortlisted (#2) for the post of UN Special Rapporteur for the Right to Privacy.^{[citation needed]} In June, he received the ACM Policy Award for “long-standing high impact leadership on privacy and technology policy.”^[8] 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.^{[citation needed]} Rotenberg was also named to expert panels for the Center for European Policy Studies (EU-US data flows), the OECD (AI, privacy, and data protection), the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, and the National Constitution Center.^{[citation needed]}

Support for Civil Society

Rotenberg has helped establish several organizations that promote public understanding of computer technology and encourage civil society participation in decisions concerning the future of the Internet. These include the Public Interest Computer Association (1983),^[9] Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (1985), the conference on Computers, Freedom, and Privacy (1991),^[10] the Public Voice Coalition (1996), the Public Interest Registry (2003), the Civil Society Information Society Advisory Council to the OECD (CSISAC) (2009),^[11] and the EPIC Public Voice Fund (2018).

Publications

Rotenberg is co-editor of The Privacy Law Sourcebook (CAIDP 2025), The AI and Democratic Values Index (CAIDP 2025), and Privacy in the Modern Age: The Search for Solutions (The New Press 2015), a collection of articles on the future of privacy.^[12] Other books include The Privacy Law Sourcebook: United States Law, International Law, and Recent Developments (EPIC 2020),^[13] Privacy and Human Rights: An International Survey of Privacy Laws and Developments (EPIC 2006), Litigation Under the Federal Open Government Laws (EPIC 2010), Information Privacy Law (Aspen Publishing 2007) and "Privacy and Technology: The New Frontier" (MIT Press 1999). Rotenberg has also published articles and commentaries in legal, technical, and popular journals, including the ACS Supreme Court Review, Communications of the ACM, Computers & Society, CNN, Costco Connect, the Duke Law Journal, the Economist, the European Data Protection Review, The Financial Times, Fortune, the Indiana Law Review, the Harvard Business Review, the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, the Harvard International Review, Issues in Science and Technology, the Japan Economic Forum, the Minnesota Law Review, Newsweek, Scientific American, the Stanford Technology Law Review, Techonomy, and USA Today, among others.^{[citation needed]}

Education and honors

Rotenberg is a graduate of Harvard College and Stanford Law School, and received an LL.M. in international and comparative law from Georgetown Law.^{[citation needed]} At Harvard, he was a founding editor of the Harvard International Review and a head teaching fellow in computer science.^{[citation needed]} At Stanford he was an articles editor of the Stanford Law Review and president of the Stanford Public Interest Law Foundation.^{[citation needed]} He was also the research assistant to A. Leon Higginbotham Jr., when the Judge and former FTC Commissioner (the first African American appointed as a commissioner on any regulatory commission) was a visiting professor at Stanford Law School.^{[citation needed]} He served as counsel to Senator Patrick J. Leahy on the Senate Judiciary Committee after graduation from law school. He is a Life Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, the American Law Institute, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the European Law Institute, and the recipient of several awards, including the Norbert Wiener Award for Social and Professional Responsibility, the American Lawyer Top Lawyers Under 45, and the Vicennial Medal (2012) for distinguished service from Georgetown University.^{[citation needed]} He was included in the "Lawdragon 500", a listing of the leading lawyers in America, and received the ABA Cyberspace Law Excellence Award, the ACM Tech Policy Award, the World Technology Award for Law, and the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology Award for Outstanding Contribution to Law and Technology.^{[citation needed]}

Personal

Rotenberg grew up in Boston, Massachusetts.^{[citation needed]} His brother Jonathan Rotenberg founded the Boston Computer Society at age 13.^{[citation needed]} Rotenberg is married to Anna Markopoulos Rotenberg, a former economist and now ESL teacher in the District of Columbia and Alexandria Public Schools.^{[citation needed]} A tournament chess player, Rotenberg is a three-time Washington, D.C., chess Champion (2007, 2008, 2010) and works to promote chess in Washington, DC in cooperation with the US Chess Center, ChessGirlsDC, and the newly established DC Chess Association ("Uknighting the community.").^[14] Rotenberg is also a licensed US Coast Guard captain.^{[citation needed]}