Joseph Lorenzo Hall is the Chief Technologist at the Center for Democracy & Technology, a Washington, DC-based non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring the internet remains free, open and innovative.

Hall's work focuses on the nexus between technology, law, and policy, working carefully to ensure that technology and technical considerations are appropriately embedded into legal and policy environments. Supporting work across all of CDT's programmatic areas, Hall provides technical analyses and perspective to CDT's programs, and interfaces externally with CDT supporters, stakeholders, academics, and technologists.