Senior Counsel, Computer Crime and Intellectual Property
Department of Justice’s Criminal Division
LinkedInLaura-Kate Bernstein is a senior counsel in the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section of the Department of Justice’s Criminal Division, where she prosecutes federal cybercrime and advises on policy issues related to emerging computer crime, specifically non-consensual pornography, sextortion, swatting, doxing, and cyber-facilitated hate crime. Before she joined CCIPS, Laura-Kate clerked for the Honorable Scott W. Stucky of the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. She holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
When designed to operate in complete stealth mode, with no persistent notification to the device owner, stalkerware can give abusers, stalkers, and other perpetrators a robust tool to perpetrate harassment, monitoring, stalking, fraud, and abuse. This type of abuse can be terrifying, traumatizing, and raises significant safety and privacy concerns. This panel will discuss the availability of these apps, the use of them as a tool for abuse, and the steps government and industry can take to help combat the problem.
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