Bio
Jacob Snow (@snowjake) is a Technology and Civil Liberties attorney at the ACLU of Northern California, where he works on a variety of issues, including consumer privacy, surveillance, and the preservation of free speech online.
Before joining the ACLU of Northern California, Jacob was a Staff Attorney in the San Francisco office of the Federal Trade Commission, where his work covered the full breadth of the FTC’s mission. His consumer-protection work resulted in millions of dollars of judgments for consumers in false-advertising actions. Jacob’s health-care antitrust work preserved competition between health-care providers in Central and Southern California.
Jacob also litigated intellectual property cases at Orrick, Herrington, & Sutcliffe. While at Orrick, Jacob was a member of the trial team that won a jury verdict invalidating a series of online-backup patents asserted by a non-practicing entity, Oasis Research. The Oasis Research case and trial were featured on the radio program This American Life in two episodes titled When Patents Attack.
Jacob also served as a law clerk to Ronald M. Whyte, U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of California. He holds a B.A. in Physics from the University of California at Berkeley and a J.D. from Georgetown Law.
Featured work
![A mockup image of how a computer scans a human face for facial recognition](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2020/02/web20-clearviewAIfacerecog-blogimage-wordpress-1110x740-400x266.jpg)
Feb 10, 2020
Hey Clearview, Your Misleading PR Campaign Doesn’t Make Your Face Surveillance Product Any Less Dystopian
![Amazon Doorbell](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/web18-amazondoorbell-1160x768-400x266.jpg)
Dec 12, 2018
Amazon’s Disturbing Plan to Add Face Surveillance to Your Front Door
!["Read the Privacy Policy" on a phone screen](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/web18_privacypolicy_1160x768-400x266.jpg)
Oct 25, 2018
What Companies Can Do to Protect Privacy and Free Speech: The ACLU Guide
![Members of Congress](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/featured_image-400x266.jpg)
Jul 26, 2018
Amazon’s Face Recognition Falsely Matched 28 Members of Congress With Mugshots