Michael Zimmer (academic)

Michael Zimmer is a privacy and data ethics scholar. He currently is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at Marquette University and Director of the Center for Data, Ethics, and Society. Previously, he was on the faculty at the School of Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, and director of the Center for Information Policy Research.[1] Zimmer is on the advisory board of the Future of Privacy Forum,[2] and was on the executive committee of the Association of Internet Researchers from 2009-2016.[3] He was the Microsoft Resident Fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School from 2007-2008.[4]

Michael Zimmer
Alma materUniversity of Notre Dame (B.B.A. Marketing, 1994)
New York University (M.A. Media Ecology, 2002)
New York University (Ph.D. Media, Culture and Communication, 2007)
Scientific career
Fieldsprivacy, internet ethics, data ethics, internet research ethics, social computing
InstitutionsUniversity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (2008-2019)
Marquette University (2019-present)
Websitemichaelzimmer.org

Zimmer has criticized the research ethics of a Harvard-sponsored research project that harvested the Facebook profiles of an entire cohort of undergraduate students.[5] He has appeared on the National Public Radio shows Science Friday[6] and Morning Edition.[7][8] Zimmer appeared in the "Is My Cellphone Spying On Me?" commentary accompanying the DVD release of Eagle Eye [9]

On October 25, 2013, Zimmer announced "The Zuckerberg Files", a digital archive of all the public utterances of Facebook's founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg.[10][11] Zimmer published a critique of Zuckerberg in The Washington Post to commemorate Facebook's 10th anniversary.[12] In 2021, Zimmer was named among experts advising Gizmodo regarding the release of The Facebook Papers[13]

Selected publications
  • Internet Research Ethics for the Social Age: New Challenges, Cases, and Contexts, Peter Lang, 2017 ISBN 978-1433142666

References
  1. "About the Director", Center for Information Policy Research Archived 2011-10-04 at the Wayback Machine
  2. FPF Advisory Board Archived 2011-10-05 at the Wayback Machine
  3. New Executive Committee
  4. "ISP Alumni". Archived from the original on 2012-01-29. Retrieved 2011-12-28.
  5. "Harvard Researchers Accused of Breaching Students' Privacy". Chronicle of Higher Education, July 10, 2011.
  6. Online Privacy Archived 2011-10-25 at the Wayback Machine, May 21st, 2010
  7. Groups Complain To FTC About Facebook Changes, January 4, 2010
  8. Biography
  9. "Eagle Eye: Special Edition (2008)".
  10. "‘The Zuckerberg Files’: New Scholarly Archive Scrutinizes Facebook CEO". Chronicle of Higher Education, October 25, 2013.
  11. "Privacy Advocate Creates “Zuckerberg Files” Archive". The Wall Street Journal, October 30, 2013.
  12. "Mark Zuckerberg’s theory of privacy". The Washington Post, February 4, 2014.
  13. Cameron, Dell; Couts, Andrew; Wodinsky, Shoshana (2021-11-22). "We're Making the Facebook Papers Public. Here's Why and How". Gizmodo. Retrieved 20 December 2021.


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