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

Press

Study Finds Sites Leak User Information

CIS Student Fellow Jonathan Mayer was mentioned in the following Stanford Daily article by Sandy Huang. The article covered a report authored by Mayer on privac…

Blog

Tracking the Trackers: Self-Help Tools

A number of technologies have been touted to offer consumers control over third-party web tracking. This post reviews the tools that are available and presents…

Blog

Tracking the Trackers: The AdChoices Icon

(Jovanni Hernandez and Akshay Jagadeesh are the first authors of this study.) Responding to pressure from the Federal Trade Commission, in mid-2009 the largest…