ABOUT ME
My research focuses on ethics, politics, and policy in computing. A philosopher by training, I study governance problems raised by new and emerging data-driven technologies and the underlying conceptual and normative problems that make it difficult to understand and tackle them. I have broad interests in technology ethics and policy, philosophy of technology, and science and technology studies, especially critical questions about data, privacy, and the ethics of automation.
I'm an associate professor in the Department of Information Science at Cornell University. I'm currently also a non-resident fellow at the Center for Democracy and Technology.
UPDATES
- I discussed differential privacy with Rachel Cummings and Jamal Magby on CDT's Tech Talk podcast.
- New paper — Jeremy Seeman and I published "Between Privacy and Utility: On Differential Privacy in Theory and Practice" in the new ACM Journal on Responsible Computing.
- New paper — My chapter on recent trends in privacy theory and policy making, "From Procedural Rights to Political Economy: New Horizons for Regulating Online Privacy," was published in Sabine Trepte's and Philipp Masur's new Routledge volume.
- New paper — Laura Cabrera and I published "Brain Data in Context: Are New Rights the Way to Mental and Brain Privacy?" in AJOB Neuroscience.
- I visited the Notre Dame Technology Ethics Center's "TEC Talks" podcast for a conversation with Kirsten Martin.
- New funding — Jen Wagner (PI), Laura Cabrera, Sara Gerke, and I were awarded NIH funding to study the ethics of synthetic data!
- New paper — I published a short, invited essay on "Data and the Good?" in the latest issue of Surveillance & Society.
- New paper — Kiel Brennan-Marquez and I published "Privacy, Autonomy, and the Dissolution of Markets" in the Knight First Amendment Institute's Data & Democracy Essay Series.
- New paper — I published "Decision Time: Normative Dimensions of Algorithmic Speed" in the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT).