Robyn Greene

Privacy and Public Policy Manager, Lead on Law Enforcement Access and Data Protection
Facebook

Former Member
Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee (DPIAC), U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Former Senior Policy Counsel and Government Affairs Lead
New America’s Open Technology Institute

Former Legislative Assistant
American Civil Liberties Union

Robyn Greene is a nationally recognized expert in law and policy concerning privacy, surveillance and cybersecurity. She leads Facebook’s global privacy policy work on surveillance and cross border data flows, where she focuses on how best to protect the privacy and human rights of Facebook users, and internet users generally. In that role, Robyn manages policy development and analysis, research, and coalition building on a global portfolio of the most pressing issues in internet governance, including Facebook’s responses to the CJEU’s ruling in Schrems II, the proliferation of data localization requirements around the world, growing calls for industry to build encryption backdoors and client side scanning capabilities into private messaging services, and COVID response. 

Robyn previously spent five years with New America’s Open Technology Institute, where she was a Senior Policy Counsel and Government Affairs Lead. Prior to joining OTI, she worked at the Washington Legislative Office for the American Civil Liberties Union. In both positions, she developed policy and legislative proposals and analysis of surveillance and cybersecurity issues. Robyn also served as a subject matter expert on the Data Privacy and Integrity Committee at the Department of Homeland Security where she advised on matters related to privacy and data security in the context of DHS’s use of facial recognition technology. 

Robyn has testified before Congress on cyber threat information sharing, published the largest publicly available study on US Intelligence Community Section 702 compliance violations, and has been published in leading media outlets, including the Washington Post, Politico, Lawfare, and Just Security.