Daniel “Dazza” Greenwood is the founder of CIVICS.com, a boutique provider of professional consultancy services for legal technologies, automated transactions, privacy and data management, and technology strategy. Dazza is also a researcher at MIT Media Lab and Lecturer at MIT Connection Science where he has been advancing the field of computational law and generative AI for law as Executive Director oflaw.MIT.edu.
Our guest serves as lead on the Data Rights Protocol initiative through Consumer Reports Digital Lab. This protocol provides a common open specification for enabling consumers and companies to process the exercise of individual data rights as a consumer-connected digital service.
Dazza Greenwood consults to Fortune 100 companies, architecting and building integrated business, legal and technology cross-boundary networks at industry scale. As an attorney, he served as both in-house and special counsel for technology law, representing corporations and governments. He has also testified before the US House, US Senate and other legislatures on electronic transactions law and consults extensively to the public sector.
References:
* Dazza Greenwood on LinkedIn
* Dazza Greenwood’s Substack
* CIVICS.com
* Data Rights Protocol: Standardizing consumers’ data rights requests (Consumer Reports)
* Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (1999)
* Authority Boundaries for AI (Dazza Greenwood, May 2026)
* LQAI from LegalQuants on Github (open source platform for law firms)
* Thirteen Words Shape Legal AI (Dazza Greenwood, September 2026)
* MIT Computational Law Report - Now part of Stanford Law School
* HOPE Lab, Hands-On Projects and Experimentation: Learn to work with agents across multiple stages, with clear goals, boundaries, and evidence of what worked.
* Interlateral (“Bring your own agent”), run by Dazza Greenwood: A space where people and their AI agents meet, coordinate, and build together over the web.
* Jamie Smith: AI Agents, digital identity, wallets and personal data (Masters of Privacy, December 2024).
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