Aaron Gluck Thaler is a privacy advocate and an engineering undergraduate student, working at the intersection of technology, law, and policy. His research focuses on government surveillance, the global trade of surveillance technologies, and digital civil liberties issues. In 2015, he founded the Student Coalition for Privacy, a Canadian grassroots student movement that is campaigning to repeal Bill C-51. He has previously worked with Privacy International and the American Civil Liberties Union's Speech Privacy, and Technology Project.