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

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Tracking the Trackers: Early Results

Over the past several months researchers at the Stanford Security Lab have been developing a platform for measuring dynamic web content. One of our chief applic…

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Do Not Track, Meet IETF

Do Not Track is on its way to becoming an Internet standard. In collaboration with Sid Stamm at Mozilla we've submitted an Internet-Draft to the IETF, speci…

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Minor Updates to the Do Not Track Header

We're pleased to announce we're beginning work on an IETF Internet-Draft for the Do Not Track header.  We look forward to incorporating broad feedback.…

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Do Not Track - Q & A

Since our introduction of DoNotTrack.Us last week we've received a deluge of questions.  This post answers some of the most common inquiries.  If we haven&#…

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Cyber Détente

Late last year the Obama administration reopened talks with Russia over the militarization of cyberspace and assented to cybersecurity discussion in the United…