Computer Science Experts, LLC
Investigations and expert testimony performed with obsessive diligence
team@cse.llc

Why CSE?

We are highly-regarded scientists,
experienced in legal investigations and testimony,
collaborating as a team to deliver exceptional results.

Cases of Note

California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA), Federal Wiretap Act
Brown v. Google LLC 1 Settled Hochman Schneier
Frasco v. Flo Health, Inc. 1 Verdict Egelman
Rodriguez v. Google LLC 1 Verdict Hochman Schneier
Lopez v. Apple, Inc. 1 Settled Egelman
Pennsylvania Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance Control Act (WESCA)
Young, et al v. Salesforce, Inc. 1 Pending Schechter
FTC Act
Federal Trade Commission v. Amazon.com, Inc. (C14-1038-JCC) 1 Verdict Egelman
US Intellectual Property Law
Copyright Mon Cheri Bridals, LLC v. Cloudflare, Inc (2:18-cv-09453-MWF-AS) 1 Schneier
Patent Epicor Software Corp. v. Protegrity Corp. (CBM2015-00002) 1 Schneier
Patent Apple, Inc. v. Achates Reference Publishing, Inc. (IPR 13-00080) 1 Schneier
Underlines represent the parties our clients have represented. Our cases of note includes work experts performed prior to, or outside of, CSE.

Our Testifying Experts

Serge Egelman

Serge Egelman conducts research to protect consumers and help people make more informed online privacy and security decisions. His work has touched on topics such as security warnings, authentication, and the privacy of data on mobile devices and within mobile applications. Serge's research findings have led to congressional testimony, spawned numerous lawsuits and regulatory actions, and been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Wired, CNET, NBC, and CBS.

Serge is the Research Director of the Usable Security and Privacy group at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), an independent research institute affiliated with UC Berkeley, and Chief Scientist at AppCensus, Inc., a startup performing on-demand privacy analysis of mobile apps for developers, regulators, and watchdog groups. He received his PhD from Carnegie Mellon University and his Bachelors from the University of Virginia. He has been recognized with the Caspar Bowden Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies, the USENIX Security Distinguished Paper Award, the Spanish Data Protection Authority's Emilio Aced Personal Data Protection Research Award, the CNIL-INRIA Privacy Research Award, and the Carnegie Mellon University CyLab Distinguished Alumni Award.

Bruce Schneier

Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist, called a security guru by the Economist. His research and expertise includes cryptography cybersecurity, digital privacy, data integrity, artificial intelligence security and safety, Internet-of-Things security, corporate and government surveillance, digital fraud, blockchain and crypto-currencies, cybersecurity policy, and the intersection of AI with democracy and governance. He has testified before congress more than a half dozen times and served as an expert witness on a variety of cases, spanning class-action privacy lawsuits, contract disputes, and patent disputes.

Bruce is a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, and at the Munk School at the University of Toronto. He is the New York Times best-selling author of 14 books – including "A Hacker's Mind" and "Rewiring Democracy" – as well as hundreds of articles, essays, and academic papers. His influential newsletter Crypto-Gram and blog Schneier on Security are read by over 250,000 people. He is a fellow at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and AccessNow, and an advisory board member of EPIC and VerifiedVoting.org. He is the Chief of Security Architecture at Inrupt, Inc.

Jonathan Hochman

Jonathan Hochman, PhD serves as consulting and testifying expert for cases related to Internet marketing, Internet security, privacy, e-commerce, website development, digital forensics, and search engine optimization (SEO), as well as pay-per-click (PPC), mobile, and digital advertising. He has provided expert witness services since 2007 to plaintiffs and defendants alike for disputes involving trademarks, patents, trade secrets, copyrights, contracts, defamation and online reputation, unfair competition, conspiracy and fraud.

Jonathan has testified at 24 trials and 66 depositions and has served as an expert in hundreds of cases. He has served clients located in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Israel, Ukraine, and Romania. Upon receiving his PhD from Yale University he was invited to join the faculty as a lecturer.

Stuart Schechter

Stuart Schechter is researcher of computer security and privacy, human behavior, and ethics. His research helped debunk such previously-common practices such as mandatory (e.g., 90-day) password changes, password-complexity policies, security questions (e.g., favorite pet), and site-authentication images. His expertise includes privacy investigations, and he has built software to help track the flow of information from websites to third parties, as well as to analyze exported analytics data and configuration files (e.g., Google Tag Manager containers).

Stuart is currently an Associate in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. Previously, he was a lecturer at the University of California at Berkeley, a Researcher at Microsoft Research (2007-2016), and a member of the technical staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory (2004-2007). He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Harvard University In 2004, and his Bachelors of Science in Computer and Information Science (BSCIS) from The Ohio State University in 1996.