Barry Steinhardt served as Associate Director of the American Civil Liberties Union for 10 years. He was recently named as the inaugural Director of the ACLU's Program on Technology and Liberty. Steinhardt is a 1978 graduate of the Northeastern University School of Law. He was a co-founder of the Global Internet Liberty Campaign (GILC) and Chair of the 2003 Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference. He is a member of the Advisory Committee to the US Census . He was a member of the Blue Ribbon Panel on Genetics of the National Conference of State Legislatures and the US delegation to the G-8 Government and Private Sector Tokyo conference on Cyber Crime.

Steinhardt has spoken and written widely on privacy and information technology issues to audiences ranging from the National Conference of State Legislatures, to the National Commission on the Future of DNA Evidence, to the Hoover Institute, to the UNESCO Conference on Intellectual Property. He has written on privacy issues and free expression issues in a variety of periodicals ranging from USA Today to the Employment Testing Law and Policy Reporter, to the Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal. Steinhardt is a frequent guest on news and talk programs and has appeared on such programs as the Today Show, CNN Crossfire, CBS Face the Nation and Morning News, and The Donahue Shows.