Benny Forer

  • Lecturer in Cyber Law
  • Information Technology Program
  • USC Viterbi School of Engineering

Expertise Summary

Veteran criminal prosecutor with experience prosecuting cases ranging from narcotics offenses to gang murders to complex white collar crime

Expertise

  • Criminal behavior
  • Criminal law
  • Criminal prosecution and defense
  • Criminal justice
  • Fourth Amendment
  • Fifth Amendment
  • Evidence
  • Child sexual abuse
  • Cyber crime
  • Cyber law
  • Media law
  • Jewish law
  • Invasion of privacy

Additional Information

  • Deputy District Attorney, specializing in Cyber Crime
  • Author of articles pertaining to cyber prosecutions: The Complexities of Compelling Facial Biometrics; Deepfakes: What Prosecutors Need to Know; Computer Forensics in Court for Prosecutors: Fourth Amendment Issues in Digital Evidence
  • Ordained Rabbi
  • International speaker on issues of Child Sexual Abuse, including online abuse of children