Stanford CIS
Jonathan Mayer

Jonathan Mayer

Affiliate Scholar

Jonathan Mayer is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs at Princeton University. Before joining the Princeton faculty, Jonathan served as the technology law and policy advisor to United States Senator Kamala Harris and as the Chief Technologist of the Federal Communications Commission Enforcement Bureau. Jonathan's research centers on the intersection of technology and law, with emphasis on national security, criminal procedure, consumer privacy, network management, and online speech. Jonathan is both a computer scientist and a lawyer, and he holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.

Recent articles

Blog

What’s In Your Metadata?

Co-authored with Patrick Mutchler. This is a project of the Stanford Security Lab. We’re studying the National Security Agency, and we need your help. The NSA h…

Press

Do Not Track proposal is DOA

""The parties are now further apart on the negotiations than they ever had been," said Jonathan Mayer, a Stanford privacy researcher and Do Not T…