The ACLU hires Internet Infrastructure Technologist

Clearly, more and more of us do more and more online. Should we not have the same protection as we have in much of our off-line life? Should we not have free expression, free association, privacy, and a functioning free press? To achieve these goals you need a highly competent technologist. So the ACLU has contracted with Dan Gillmor, who seems to have a strong background in the field. 

He writes about his task and his concerns on the ACLU web site:  

The civil liberties that the ACLU has long fought to protect require strong encryption and other privacy enabling technologies to exist in a In the same way, as our society moves further and further online, the design choices made in the underlying communications technology infrastructure can critically shape what kinds of society are possible. These choices are governed by similar planning and implementation work. For example:
Will it be possible to communicate confidentially with your doctor, your business partner, your mate, or your friend?
Will you know for sure who you are talking to?
Can you be confident that no one else is listening?
Can you try on new identities as you grow and change, or will you have one single "face" that you must present for all your communications and that will follow you for your entire life?
What assurances do you have that when you send someone a message, they will actually get it, and it will not be tampered with along the way?
Who else gets to know who you communicated with?
What authorities are you willing to trust with your data or your identity?
Do you get a choice of authorities, or is it decided for you?
What recourse do you have if these authorities misbehave?

Sound questions. Will he be able to help the ACLU in its work to keep us free?