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Solveig Singleton

Former Director of Information Studies

Solveig Singleton, former director of information studies, specializes in privacy policy, encryption, and telecommunications law. She also serves as vice chairman of publications for the Telecommunications and Electronic Media Practice Group of the Federalist Society for Law & Public Policy Studies. Her articles have appeared in the Journal of Commerce, the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Washington Times, the Wall Street Journal, Internet Underground, and HotWired. Her undergraduate degree is from Reed College, where she majored in philosophy. She then graduated cum laude from Cornell Law School and worked for two years at a telecommunications law firm.

Published Works

Books

Economic Casualties: How U.S. Foreign Policy Undermines Trade, Growth, and Liberty, coeditor (1999)

Regulators' Revenge: The Future of Telecommunications Deregulation, coeditor (1998)

Studies

"Encryption Policy for the 21st Century," Cato Institute Policy Analysis no. 325 (November 19, 1998)

"Privacy as Censorship: A Skeptical View of Proposals to Regulate Privacy in the Private Sector," Cato Institute Policy Analysis no. 295 (January 22, 1998)

"Beyond the Communications Decency Act: Constitutional Lessons of the Internet," Cato Institute Policy Analysis no. 262 (October 22, 1996)

Opinion and Commentary

"Don't Sacrifice Freedom for Privacy," the Wall Street Journal (1998)

"Silicon Valley versus the Regulators," San Francisco Chronicle (1998)

"Mailing-List Chicken Littles," the Washington Post (1997)