Michael Zimmer (academic)

Michael Zimmer is a privacy and social media scholar. He currently is an associate professor in 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]

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 2017, Zimmer was named editor of the Journal of Intellectual Freedom and Privacy published by the American Library Association's Office of Intellectual Freedom.[13]

References

  1. ↑ "About the Director", Center for Information Policy Research
  2. ↑ FPF Advisory Board Archived 2011-10-05 at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ↑ New Executive Committee
  4. ↑ ISP Alumni
  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. ↑ http://www.dvdmg.com/eagleeyese.shtml
  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. ↑ http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2017/01/michael-zimmer-appointed-editor-journal-intellectual-freedom-and-privacy
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