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# Vera Eidelman 

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Vera Eidelman is a senior staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project. Her practice focuses on protecting free speech and privacy rights in the digital age, including the rights of protesters and young people, online speech, and genetic privacy. Eidelman has litigated cases including a constitutional challenge to anti-protest laws in *Dakota Rural Action v. Noem*; the right to write, publish, and distribute books in *In re Gender Queer* and *A Court of Mist and Fury*; and a challenge to nonconsensual faceprinting in *ACLU v. Clearview AI*. Eidelman has briefed cases before the Supreme Court, including *Mckesson v. Doe* and *Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L*. Previously, Eidelman was a William J. Brennan fellow at the ACLU, and she holds degrees from Stanford University and Yale Law School. Before joining the ACLU, she clerked for Judge Beth Labson Freeman of the US District Court for the Northern District of California.

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