Hannah Quay-de la Vallee
Senior Technologist
Center for Democracy & Technology
Hannah Quay-de la Vallee is a Senior Technologist at the Center for Democracy & Technology. While she brings her technical expertise to bear across CDT’s projects, she is primarily focused on the Student Privacy project, dedicated to ensuring students are able to maintain the privacy of their data while still reaping the benefits of advances in educational technology. Hannah received her PhD in computer science from Brown University in 2017. For her dissertation, she designed and built tools that help users better manage privacy on their mobile devices.
Recent Events and Presentations
The Problem With Banning End-to-End Encryption
ITIF hosted a discussion on the implications of current legislative proposals, the efficacy and feasibility of creating “backdoors” for law enforcement to access encrypted data, and the impact these requirements would have on law-abiding American citizens and businesses.
