Dr. Josef Ansorge

• Alphabet
• Bain Capital
• Daimler AG
• Google
• IBM
• Mercedes-Benz USA
• National Disability Rights Network (NDRN)
• The Weather Company (TWC)
• U. S. Steel

• Successfully Defended Google in Calhoun et al. v. Google LLC, a high-profile data privacy class action in which the plaintiffs sought to recover billions of dollars on behalf of all U.S.-resident Chrome users on the basis of Google’s alleged misappropriation of Chrome users’ personal information through its third-party web services such as Ad Manager, Analytics, Embedded Maps, Fonts, and other services. The complaint asserted sixteen causes of action, including federal and state wiretapping claims, breach of contract, unfair competition, and state law constitutional and common law privacy claims. Obtained summary judgment as to all claims. The Daily Journal selected our summary judgment victory on behalf of Google in Calhoun as one of the “Top Verdicts” of 2022.
• Defending Google in Brown et al. v. Google LLC, a high-profile data privacy class action filed by Boies Schiller and Susman Godfrey, in which the plaintiffs seek to recover billions of dollars on behalf of a class that alleges Google misappropriated users’ personal information through Google Analytics and Google Ad Manager while the users where in “private” or “incognito” mode. The complaint asserts federal and state wiretapping claims, as well as breach of contract, UCL, and state constitutional and common law privacy claims. Successfully defeated Plaintiffs’ motion to certify a Rule 23(b)(3) damages class; currently defending against a Rule 23(b)(2) injunctive relief class.
• Obtained, on behalf of IBM and TWC, complete stipulated dismissal of a putative class action in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida alleging that TWC’s collection of geolocation data violated Florida’s Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act.
• Obtained, on behalf of IBM and TWC, a settlement with no fine and no admission of wrongdoing in action brought by the Los Angeles City Attorney on behalf of the People of California in California state court alleging that TWC’s purported failure to disclose its use and sharing of users’ geolocation data for advertising and other commercial purposes violated California’s Unfair Competition Law.
• Obtained, on behalf of Daimler AG and several of its subsidiaries, complete dismissal of a putative class action alleging that Daimler and the other major German auto manufacturers conspired to reduce innovation in their vehicles through “circle-of-five” (Fünferkreis) working groups.
• Argued and obtained reversal on behalf of U. S. Steel at the Federal Circuit in Bell Supply Co. LLC v. United States, which concerned whether unfinished oil country tubular goods (OCTG) manufactured in China and finished in other countries were subject to antidumping and countervailing duty orders.

• Yale Law School
  (J.D., 2014)
  
• University of Cambridge
  (Ph.D., Politics and International Studies, 2012)
  
• University of Cambridge
  (M.Phil., International Relations, 2005)
  
• University of Aberystwyth
  (BSc. Econ. International Relations, First Class Honors, 2004)

• The State Bar of New York
• The District of Columbia Bar
• United States District Court:
  • Eastern District of New York
  • Southern District of New York
  • Eastern District of Wisconsin
• United States Court of Appeals:
  • Second Circuit
  • Federal Circuit
• United States Court of International Trade

• English
• German

Publications

• Ansorge, Josef, Ron Hagiz and Ryan Lanes ‘Generative AI: How It Will Change Litigation’ (Quinn Emanuel) (2023)
• Ansorge, Josef Identify and Sort: How Digital Power Changed World Politics (London: Hurst; New York: Oxford University Press 2016).
• Ansorge, Josef and Tarak Barkawi ‘Military Manuals’ in: Mark B. Salter (ed.) Making Things International, vol. II (University of Minnesota Press 2016), pp. 20-31.
• Ansorge, Josef and Andrew Michels ‘Human Rights Accountability in Security Sector Governance: Principles and Practices’ prepared for review by United States Agency for International Development (USAID) (2014).
• Ansorge, Josef and Tarak Barkawi ‘Utile Forms: Power and Knowledge in “Small War”’, Review of International Studies (2014, 40, 3-24).
• Ansorge, Josef ‘The Sovereign’s Data: Ritual, Archival, Digital’, Current Intelligence (October 2013 issue).
• Ansorge, Josef ‘Registry, Print, Identity: Data-managing the Foe’, Journal of Cultural Economy (2012, 5, 29-47).
• Ansorge, Josef ‘Orientalism in the Machine’ in: Tarak Barkawi and Keith Stanski (eds.), Orientalism and War (New York: Columbia University Press 2012), pp. 129-150.
• Ansorge, Josef ‘Digital Power in World Politics: Databases, Panopticons, and Erwin Cuntz’, Millennium: Journal of International Studies (2011, 40, 65-83).
• Ansorge, Josef and Nana Akua Antwi-Ansorge ‘Monopoly, Legitimacy, Force: DDR-SSR Liberia’ in: Michael Miklaucik (ed.), Monopoly of Force (Washington DC: NDU Press 2011), pp. 265-284.
• Ansorge, Josef ‘Spirits of War: A Field Manual,’ International Political Sociology (2010, 4, 362-379).
• Ansorge, Josef ‘The (International) Politics of Friendship’, in: Madeleine Fagan, Ludovic Glorieux, Indira Hasimbegovic and Marie Suetsugu (eds.), Derrida: Negotiating the Legacy (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 2007), pp. 112-127.

Lectures & Presentations

• ‘An Overview of the U.S. Privacy Litigation Landscape,’ 11^th Annual BCLT Privacy Forum, Berkeley, CA (8-Mar-2023).
• ‘From Legal versus Engineering to Legal with Engineering – How to Work Together to Truly Embed Privacy by Design into Your Organization,’ Privacy + Security Forum Conference, Washington, DC (3-Nov-2022).
• ‘The Antitrust-Privacy Collision,’ Privacy + Security Forum Conference, Washington, DC (3-Nov-2022).
• ‘Data Privacy in Product Design,’ Privacy + Security Forum Conference, Washington, DC (4-Nov-2022).
• ‘Comprehensive Accountability Regimes’, Accountability and Prevention of Human Rights Violations, Washington D.C. (26-Mar-2015).          
• ‘Comprehensive Accountability Regimes’, 6th AFRICOM Academic Symposium, Accra, Ghana (24-Jun-2014).      
• ‘What Time is it in ‘Auxiliary Space’?’, International Studies Association Annual Convention, Toronto, Canada (25-Mar-2014).       
• Discussant: Panel on ‘Building Peace in the Postcolony: Challenges to an Emerging Paradigm’, International Studies Association Annual Convention, Toronto, Canada (27-Mar-2014).       
• ‘Identify & Sort: State Policies and Practices’, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, Austin, Texas (20-Nov-2013).
• ‘SSR and DDR Programs in Peacekeeping Operations’, George Washington University, Washington, D.C. (19-Oct-2013).
• ‘EU Security Policy in the Mediterranean Region’ Belgrade Security Forum, Belgrade, Serbia (20-Sep-2013).
• ‘Ships of State: Technology, International Relations, and Identity Dominance’ IISS-SAIS Merrill Center Young Strategists Programme, Bellagio, Italy (30-Aug-2013).
• ‘Digital Power in World Politics’ Universidad del Rosario, Bogota, Colombia (13-Jul-2013).
• Lectured week-long course on International Security, University College ISPE, Pristina, Kosovo (18-22-Mar-2013).
• ‘Writing Exceptions to the Laws of War’ Social Science History Association, Vancouver, Canada (3-Nov-2012).
• ‘Security Sector Reform in Liberia’ New York University, New York, USA (23-Oct-2012).
• ‘Racial Hierarchies and Indexes: Information, Technology, International Relations, and Order’ International Studies Association Annual Convention, San Diego, USA (3-Apr-2012).
• Discussant: Panel on ‘Uneven and Combined Development and International Theory’ International Studies Association Annual Convention, San Diego, USA Sunday (1-Apr-2012).
• ‘Monographs, Manuals and Smart Cards: Power, Knowledge and Form in ‘Small Wars’’ International Studies Association Annual Convention, Montreal, Canada (18-Mar-2011).        
• ‘The Knowledge Practices of SSR in Liberia’ International Studies Association Annual Convention, Montreal, Canada (16-Mar-2011).
• ‘Orientalism in the Machine’ Orientalism at War, Oxford University, Oxford, UK (19-Jun-2010).
• Discussant: Panel on ‘Insurgents’ Orientalism at War, Oxford University, Oxford, UK (17-Jun-2010).
• ‘The Genre of Lessons Learned Papers’ Making Sense in Afghanistan: Interaction and Uncertainty in International Interventions, Mershon Center for International Security Studies, The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA (10-Apr-2010).
• ‘The Technologies of Development and Security’ Social and Political Science Tripos, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK (16-Feb-2010).
• ‘SSR: The Liberia Case’ London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), London, UK (2-Feb-2010).
• ‘Digital Power: Metaphors of Databases in International Relations’ London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), London, UK (25-Jan-2010).
• Discussant: Panel on ‘Locales’ Mars turns to Minerva: The Military, Social Science, and War in the 21st Century (Co-Organizer), Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK (7-Jul-2009).
• ‘The New Spirit of War Field Manual’ Mars turns to Minerva: The Military, Social Science, and War in the 21st Century (Co-Organizer), Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK (8-Jul-2009).
• ‘The Meaning of Machines: Investigating Digital Power at the Heart of Databases’ European Datawars: Fighting Terrorism through Data, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands (11-Jun-2009).
• ‘The Meaning of Machines: Databases, Theories and Power’ Analyzing the Security Field: Mapping Privatization and Internationalization, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark (24-Apr-2009).
• ‘The New Spirits of War: COIN and HTS’ Joint Services Command and Staff College, Defence Academy of the United Kingdom, Shrivenham, UK (21-Jan-2009).

• East Coast Advisory Board, Disability Rights Advocates (DRA)