Alan Butler

Alan Butler is the Executive Director and President of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), a public interest research and advocacy organization in Washington, D.C. He joined EPIC in 2011 and has led the organization since 2021, following a decade of managing its litigation program, including filing amicus briefs in major privacy cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. He is best known for his work on data protection, Fourth Amendment, and consumer privacy issues, including authoring an amicus brief in Riley v. California that was cited in the Supreme Court's unanimous opinion upholding Fourth Amendment protections for cell phones. He is a graduate of UCLA School of Law and Washington University in St. Louis and chairs the Privacy and Information Protection Committee of the ABA Section on Civil Rights and Social Justice.