Fred H. Cate C. Ben Dutton Professor of Law

Fred H. Cate is Vice President for Research, Distinguished Professor, C. Ben Dutton Professor of Law, and Adjunct Professor of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University. He served as the founding director of IU’s Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research, a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Research and Information Assurance Education, from 2003 to 2014, where he is now a senior fellow. He is also a senior advisor to Red Barn Strategy.

Professor Cate chaired the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine’s study on Law Enforcement and Intelligence Access to Encrypted Content and the International Telecommunication Union’s High-Level Experts on Electronic Signatures and Certification Authorities. He was counsel to the Department of Defense Technology and Privacy Advisory Committee, and a member of the National Academies’ Forum on Cyber Resilience, the National Academies’ Committee on Technical and Privacy Dimensions of Information for Terrorism Prevention, the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity Subcommittee, the National Security Agency’s Privacy and Civil Liberties Panel, the OECD’s Informal Advisory Expert Group on Cybersecurity and Panel of Experts on Health Information Infrastructure, Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Academic Advisory Board, Intel’s Privacy and Security External Advisory Board, the Federal Trade Commission’s Advisory Committee on Online Access and Security, and the board of directors of The Privacy Projects. He has testified before numerous congressional committees and speaks frequently before professional, industry, and government groups.
 
The author of more than 250 articles and books, he served as the privacy editor for the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers' Security & Privacy and as one of the founding editors of the Oxford University Press journal, International Data Privacy Law. Professor Cate attended Oxford University and received his J.D. and his A.B. with Honors and Distinction from Stanford University. A former Senator and President of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, he is a fellow of Phi Beta Kappa and the American Bar Foundation, and an elected member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Law Institute.