Joel Schwarz is a director, and privacy and data protection lead, for MBL Technologies, and an adjunct professor at Albany Law School, teaching courses on cybercrime, cybersecurity and privacy. He previously served as the Civil Liberties and Privacy Officer (CLPO) for the National Counterterrorism Center and was a cybercrime prosecutor for the US Department of Justice and NY State Attorney General’s Office. He was also counsel on e-commerce and privacy for MetLife.