Ari Ezra Waldman is the Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Innovation Center for Law and Technology at New York Law School. He is the Founder and Director of the Tyler Clementi Institute for Cyber Safety, a full service academic center of excellence that includes, among other things, the country's only pro bono law school clinic dedicated exclusively to helping victims of cyber harassment find justice. He holds a Ph.D. in sociology from Columbia University, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, and a B.A., magna cum laude, from Harvard College.

Professor Waldman's research focuses on online privacy, hate and harassment on the Internet, and social networks. His dissertation, which he is turning into a book, argues that to protect information privacy in the digital age, the law of privacy should protect relationships of trust. His ongoing projects include an analysis of the manipulative effects of privacy policy design; empirical work on the nature, frequency, and prevention of cyber harassment; the role of trust in our propensity to share; unmasking anonymous online harassers; and many more. His scholarship has been published in leading law reviews, including the University of Miami Law Review, the Hastings Law Journal, the University of Maryland Law Review, the Temple Law Review, and others.

Professor Waldman serves on the Data Privacy Advisory Committee of the Taxi and Limousine Commission of New York City, the Board of Trustees of the Tyler Clementi Foundation, and the Leadership Council of OUTLeadership. He is the Privacy Issues Expert for About.com and the Legal Editor at Towleroad.

Detective Sergeant Finley is a 20 year veteran of law enforcement. He has served in almost every facet of law enforcement from Patrol, Traffic, Undercover Narcotics, SWAT and Criminal Investigations.
He is currently assigned as Supervisor over the Criminal Investigations Unit in his department in metropolitan Atlanta Georgia. Along with his supervisor duties he primarily works online/cyber related crimes.

Sergeant Finley has worked with The Georgia Bureau of Investigation – Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force in tracking and arresting child predators on the internet. He is a member & Agency Representative for the National White Collar Crime Center and also a member of the High Tech Criminal Investigators Association.

Sergeant Finley was the lead investigator in a multi-state and international swatting investigation that involved a suspect who had swatted 40+ cities in the US and Canada. He worked with the FBI Atlanta- Cyber Unit and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in British Columbia Canada to track, identify and arrest the international serial swatting suspect.

New York Times Magazine featured a story of the yearlong investigation of the serial swatting suspect. Ultimately he was arrested in Canada and charged with the crimes he committed here in the USA. Some of his charges included criminal harassment, extortion (sextortion) and Identity theft.

He has also worked with Westchester Co. NY Police and the District Attorney’s office to track down and identify another serial swatting suspect that had committed numerous incidents all over the US.

Sergeant Finley is currently working with his Georgia State Representative to enact Georgia's first swatting law.

He is also scheduled to appear in several documentary films to speak about swatting and online harassment.

Sergeant Finley also developed and teaches a Women's & Teen girls self defense class. It not only deals with tips on physical safety but online safety as well.