OLD NEWS
- I'm excited to join the Privacy Law Scholars Conference (PLSC) Program and Planning Committee! [1/2022]
- New paper — I contributed a chapter on "Predictive Policing and the Ethics of Preemption" to The Ethics of Policing: New Perspectives on Law Enforcement. [7/2021]
- New paper — Vincent Grimaldi and I presented our paper "Measuring Automated Influence: Between Empirical Evidence and Ethical Values" at the 2021 ACM/AAAI Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society. [5/2021]
- My online manipulation work, with Beate Roessler and Helen Nissenbaum, is discussed in a new European Commission report on democracy and digital influence. [10/2020]
- New paper — I published a short essay, "Ethical Considerations for Digitally Targeted Public Health Interventions," in a special issue of the American Journal of Public Health on addressing social media-driven misinformation. [10/2020]
- New paper — Sarah Rajtmajer presented our paper "Automated Influence and the Challenge of Cognitive Security" at the 2020 ACM Symposium on Hot Topics in the Science of Security. [3/2020]
- New Paper — My paper with Beate Roessler and Helen Nissenbaum, "Online Manipulation: Hidden Influences in a Digital World," was published in the Georgetown Law Technology Review! [12/2019]
- New paper — "Strange Loops: Apparent versus Actual Human Involvement in Automated Decision-Making" — co-authored with Karen Levy and Kiel Brennan Marquez, was published in the Berkeley Technology Law Journal! [12/2019]
- New paper — "Technology, autonomy, and manipulation," a shorter version of my manipulation work, with Beate Roessler and Helen Nissenbaum, was published in Internet Policy Review. [7/2019]
- Paul Ohm reviewed our "Online Manipulation" paper in JOTWELL! [5/2019]
- I wrote a piece for Slate arguing that tech ethics will better succeed if we're clearer about what ethics is and what it's for. [4/2019]
- I was interviewed for this KQED story on the EU Commission's new AI ethics guidelines. [4/2019]
- My paper "Notice After Notice-and-Consent: Why Privacy Disclosures Are Valuable Even If Consent Frameworks Aren’t" was published in the Journal of Information Policy. [3/2019]
- I presented "Invisible Influence: Artificial Intelligence and the Ethics of Adaptive Choice Architectures" at the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES). [1/2019]
- My paper with Beate Roessler and Helen Nissenbaum — "Online Manipulation: Hidden Influences in a Digital World" — is now up in draft form on SSRN. Feedback welcome! [1/2019]
- Our "Online Manipulation" paper won a Best Paper Award at the 2018 Privacy Law Scholars Conference! [5/2018]
- In March and April I presented at the "Targeting with Big Data" event at Ohio State's Center for Ethics and Human Values and the "Governing Machines: Defining and Enforcing Public Policy Values in AI Systems" symposium at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology. [4/19]
- In October I presented at the Amsterdam Privacy Conference, the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) Conference, and the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) Privacy, Security, Risk Conference. [10/18]
- I was interviewed for this KCBS story about privacy issues raised by the arrest of the Golden State Killer. [4/27/18]
- I presented work in progress on the ethics of behavioral targeting and online manipulation at the 2018 Internet Law Works-in-Progress Conference at New York Law School. [3/24/18]
- I participated in a super interesting plenary panel on "Humanity and Technology" with Don Norman, Gail Heyman, John Evans, and Katerina Semendeferi at UC San Diego's Conference for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities. [2/22/18]
- My chapter on "Transparent Media and the Development of Digital Habits" was published in Postphenomenology and Media: Essays on Human-Media-World Relations. [7/5/17]
- I wrote a short post about privacy and social media for the Rock Ethics Institute Everyday Ethics blog. [1/26/17]
- My article "Information Privacy and Social Self-Authorship" was published in Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology. [12/7/16]
- I delivered the Harold K. Schilling Memorial Lecture at Penn State's Rock Ethics Institute. [11/10/16]
- I gave a keynote lecture at Goethe University's Privacy and Democracy conference. [9/23/16]
- My essay "Ihde's Missing Sciences: Postphenomenology, Big Data, and the Human Sciences" was published in Techné's special symposium issue on Don Ihde's new book, Husserl's Missing Technologies. [9/1/16]
- I was a member of San Jose State's delegation to CSU's Summer Institute on "Designing Teaching for Diverse Learners" in Long Beach. [7/12/16-7/14/16]
- I workshopped a paper on notice and consent at the 9th Annual Privacy Law Scholars Conference at The George Washington University Law School. [6/3/16]
- Kiel Brennan-Marquez and I presented our paper "Obstacles to Transparency in Privacy Engineering" at the 2016 International Workshop on Privacy Engineering, part of the 37th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy. [5/26/16]
- Kiel and I presented another paper — this one on chilling effects arguments — at the Freedom of Expression Scholar's Conference at Yale Law School. [4/30/16]
- I presented a paper titled "Notice After Notice-and-Consent" at the Internet Law Works-in-Progress conference at New York Law School. [3/5/16]
- I presented work-in-progress titled "Against the Collection/Use Distinction" to the Privacy Research Group at NYU's School of Law. [2/24/16]
- My paper "Information Privacy and Social Self-Authorship" was accepted at Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology. The final version will be published some time in 2016; until then you can read the pre-publication draft at SSRN. [12/15/15]
- I moderated a panel on "Facilitating Connections" at the Responsible Use of Open Data: Government and the Private Sector conference, sponsored by NYU's Information Law Institute and UC Berkeley's Center for Law and Technology. [11/20/15]
- I presented work-in-progress titled "What's the Point of Notice?" to the Privacy Research Group at NYU's School of Law. [10/7/15]
- I began my postdoctoral research fellowship at NYU's Information Law Institute. [9/1/15]
- In August I was officially appointed to the philosophy department at San Jose State University. I'll be on research leave for AY 2015-16 to do a postdoc at NYU. I arrive at SJSU Fall 2016! [8/18/15]
- Defended my dissertation!! L8r grad school. [5/18/15]