HELEN NISSENBAUM

New York University 2001 - present
Professor, Department of Media, Culture and Communication; Computer Science
Associate Professor, Department of Media, Culture and Communication; Computer Science
Faculty Fellow, Information Law Institute. NYU Law School

Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton 2000-2001, 2008
Visitor, School of Social Sciences, 2008
Member, School of Social Sciences, 2000-2001

Princeton University 1991-2001
Research Associate, University Center for Human Values, 1998-2001
Associate Director, University Center for Human Values, Program in Ethics & Public Affairs, 1991-1998
Lecturer, Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs, 1991-2001
Coordinator, Computer Science Department, Program in Science, Technology and Ethics 1991-2001

Stanford University 1983-1991
Assistant Director, Symbolic Systems Program, 1985-1991
Postdoctoral Research Affiliate, Center for the Study of Language & Information, 1983-1985
 

Ph.D. Philosophy (1983) Stanford University, Stanford, CA
M.A. Social Sciences in Education (1978) Stanford University, Stanford, CA
B.A. Mathematics and Philosophy (1975) University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
B.A. Honors in Philosophy, First Class (1976) University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
 

Philosophy and politics of technology: ethical, social and political implications of information and communications technology and digital media (privacy, security, accountability, intellectual property, electronic publication, computing in education); Information and communications policy; Applied and professional ethics (engineering ethics, scientific integrity and research ethics)
 

Co-Principal Investigator. Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), Program of the University Research Initiative (MURI), Collaborative Policies and Assured Information Sharing, ONR BAA 07-036 August 2008. $500,000 (Total grant: $4,453,881)

Principal Investigator. National Science Foundation, Collaborative Research: GENI Working Group Meetings - Opt-in, CNS-0820795 September 2008. $49,997

Principal Investigator. National Science Foundation, Cyber-Trust (CT) Collaborative Research, CT-M: Privacy, Compliance and Information Risk in Complex Organizational Processes, CNS-0831124 July 2008. $250,000 (Total grant: $1.2 million)

Principal Investigator. National Science Foundation, Science of Design Collaborative Research: Values-at-Play - Integrating Social Factors into Design, CNS 0613893 September 2006. $537,243 (Total grant: $790,757)

Principal Investigator. United States Department of Homeland Security, "The Politics of Facial Recognition Systems." $60,073

Principal Investigator. National Science Foundation, Collaborative Research: A Workshop on Values in the Design of Information Technology, SES-0352632 June 2004. $32,291

Principal Investigator. National Science Foundation, Sensitive Information in a Wired World, Collaborative Research: ITR-0331542 September 2003. $406,000 (Total grant: $12.5 million) [Press Release]

Project Director. Ford Foundation Grant, Values in Technology Design: Democracy, Autonomy, and Justice, May 2003. $100,000

Principal Investigator. National Science Foundation, Research Agenda Workshop on Internet Research Ethics, Grant SBR-0135590 December 14-15, 2001, Lancaster University. $20,529

Principal Investigator. National Science Foundation, Societal Values in an Age of Information Technology,
Grant SBR-9806234. $75,000

Co-Principal Investigator. National Science Foundation, Network Security Responsive to Human Values: Theory and Practice (Co-Investigators: E. Felten, Princeton University and B. Friedman, Colby College), Grant SBR-9729447. $463,257
 

L. Hansen and H. Nissenbaum, "Digital Disaster, Cyber Security, and the Copenhagen School," (download final draft pdf) International Studies Quarterly, 53, 2009: 1155-1175.

D. Howe and H. Nissenbaum, "TrackMeNot: Resisting Surveillance in Web Search," (download pdf) In On the Identity Trail: Privacy, Anonymity and Identity in a Networked Society, (Eds) I. Kerr, C. Lucock, and V. Steeves, Oxford: Oxford University Press (Forthcoming 2009)

M. Flanagan and H. Nissenbaum, "Design Heuristics for Activist Games," (download pdf) In Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat: New Perspectives on Gender and Computer Games, Y.B. Kafia, J. Denner, C. Heeter, and J. Sun (eds.) Cambridge: MIT Press, 2008, 265-279.

M. Flanagan, D. Howe, and H. Nissenbaum, "Embodying Values in Technology: Theory and Practice," (download pdf) In Information Technology and Moral Philosophy, Jeroen van den Hoven and John Weckert (eds.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008

M. Flanagan, D. Howe, and H. Nissenbaum, "Design Method Outline for Activist Gaming," (download pdf) In Worlds in Play, S. de Castell and J. Jensen (eds.) Peter Lang 2007, 241-248.

M. Flanagan and H. Nissenbaum, "A Game Design Methodology to Incorporate Social Activist Themes," Proceedings of CHI 2007, March 2007

Y. Benkler and H. Nissenbaum, "Commons-Based Peer Production and Virtue," (download pdf) Journal of Political Philosophy 14(4), 2006: 394-419.

A. Barth, A. Datta, J. Mitchell, and H. Nissenbaum, "Privacy and Contextual Integrity: Framework and Applications," (download pdf) Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, May 2006 (Showcased in "The Logic of Privacy," The Economist, January 4, 2007)

H. Nissenbaum, "Where Computer Security Meets National Security," (download pdf) Ethics and Information Technology, Vol. 7, No. 2, June 2005, 61-73 (Also in Cybercrime, (download pdf) Eds Jack Balkin, James Grimmelmann, Eddan Katz, Nimrod Kozlovski, Shlomit Wagman and Tal Zarsky, New York, NYU Press, 2007)

M. Flanagan, D. Howe and H. Nissenbaum, "Values at Play: Design Tradeoffs in Socially-Oriented Game Design," (download pdf) Proceedings of CHI 2005, 751-760

H. Nissenbaum, "Values in Technical Design," (download pdf) Encyclopedia of Science, Technology and Ethics,
New York: Macmillan, 2005, lxvi-lxx

H. Nissenbaum, "Information Technology and Ethics," (download pdf) Berkshire Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction, Great Barrington, MA, Berkshire Publishing Group, 2004, 235-239.

H. Nissenbaum, "Will Security Enhance Trust Online, or Supplant It?" (download pdf) In R. Kramer and K. Cook (eds.) Trust and Distrust Within Organizations: Emerging Perspectives, Enduring Questions, Russell Sage Publications (2004): 155-188.

H. Nissenbaum, Hackers and the Contested Ontology of Cyberspace," (download pdf) New Media and Society, Vol 6(2): 195-217.

H. Nissenbaum, "Privacy as Contextual Integrity," (download pdf) Washington Law Review Vol 79, No. 1, February 2004: 119-158.

H. Nissenbaum, "New Research Norms for a New Medium," (download pdf) In The Commodification of Information, N. Elkin-Koren and N. Netanel (editors) The Hague: Kluwer Academic Press, 2002. 433-457.

H. Nissenbaum, "Hackers and the Battle for Cyberspace" Dissent, Fall 2002, 50-57.

H. Nissenbaum, "Securing Trust Online: Wisdom or Oxymoron," (download pdf) Boston University Law Review June 2001 Volume 81, No.3 635-664 (Reprinted in B. Kolko (ed.) Virtual Publics: Policy and Community in an Electronic Age. New York: Columbia University Press, 1983)

L.J. Camp, C. McGrath, H. Nissenbaum, "Trust: A Collision of Paradigms," (download pdf) Financial Cryptography 2001: Conference Proceedings, Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)

H. Nissenbaum, "How Computer Systems Embody Values," (download pdf) IEEE Computer, Mar. 2001, 120, 118-119.

L. Introna and H. Nissenbaum, "Shaping the Web: Why the Politics of Search Engines Matters," (download pdf)
The Information Society, 16(3):1-17, 2000.

L. Introna and H. Nissenbaum, "Defining the Web: The Politics of Search Engines" IEEE Computer, January 2000, 54-62.

H. Nissenbaum, "Can Trust be Secured Online? A Theoretical Perspective" Etica e Politica No. 2, December 1999.

H. Nissenbaum, "The Puzzle of Priority: New Conventions in Research for the Context of Electronic Publication," The Australian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics Vol 1, No. 1, July 1999: 44-68.

H. Nissenbaum, "The Meaning of Anonymity in an Information Age," The Information Society 15:141-144, 1999 (Reprinted in Readings in CyberEthics (2001) R.A. Spinello and H.T. Tavani (eds.) Sudbury: Jones and Bartlett)

L. Introna and H. Nissenbaum, "Sustaining the Public Good Vision of the Internet: The Politics of Search Engines," (download pdf) Center for the Arts and Cultural Policy Studies, Working Paper #9, 1999, Princeton University

H. Nissenbaum and D. Walker, "A Grounded Approach to Social and Ethical Concerns about Technology and Education," Journal of Educational Computing Research, Vol 19, No. 4, 1998: 411-432.

H. Nissenbaum, "Protecting Privacy in an Information Age: The Problem of Privacy in Public," (download pdf)
Law and Philosophy, 17: 559-596, 1998.

H. Nissenbaum and D. Walker, "Will Computers Dehumanize Education? A Grounded Approach to Values at Risk," Technology in Society, 20 (1998) 237-273.

H. Nissenbaum, "Values in the Design of Computer Systems," (download pdf) Computers in Society, March 1998, 38-39.

H. Nissenbaum, "Values in Computer System Design: Bias and Autonomy," Ethics and Information Technology, Delhi: New Academic Press, 1998

H. Nissenbaum, "Toward an Approach to Privacy in Public: The Challenges of Information Technology," (download pdf) Ethics and Behavior, 7(3), 1997, 207-219 (Reprinted in Readings in CyberEthics, R.A. Spinello and H.T. Tavani (eds.) Sudbury: Jones and Bartlett, 2001).

C. Mitcham and H. Nissenbaum, "Ethics and Technology," Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, London and New York: Routledge, 1998.

H. Nissenbaum, "Information Technology Ethics," Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, London and New York: Routledge, 1998.

B. Friedman and H. Nissenbaum, "Bias in Computer Systems," (download pdf) ACM Transactions on Information Systems, July 1996, 330-347.

H. Nissenbaum, "Accountability in a Computerized Society," (download pdf) in Science and Engineering Ethics, 1996, 2, 25-42.

H. Nissenbaum, "Should I Copy My Neighbor's Software?," (download pdf) in Computers, Ethics, and Social Responsibility, D. Johnson and H. Nissenbaum (eds.) Prentice Hall, 1995, 201-213. (Reprinted in Business Ethics for the 21st Century (1997) D.M. Adams and E.W. Maine (eds.) Mountain View: Mayfield Publishing Company.) (Reprinted in Computers and Ethics in the Cyberage (2001) D. M. Hester and P.J. Ford (eds.) Upper Saddle River: Prentice-Hall) (Reprinted in Ethics for Everyday (2001) David Benatar (Ed.) New York: McGraw-Hall)

B. Friedman and H. Nissenbaum, "Software Agents and User Autonomy," (download pdf) Proceedings of the First International Conference on Autonomous Agents. Feb., 1997, New York: ACM.

B. Friedman and H. Nissenbaum, "Bias in Computer Systems," (download pdf) Center for the Study of Language and Information, Technical Report No. CSLI-94-186, 1994, Stanford.

B. Friedman and H. Nissenbaum, "Discerning Bias in Computer Systems," in S. Ashlund, K. Mullet, A. Henderson, E. Hollnagel, & T. White (Eds.), InterCHI '93 Adjunct Proceedings Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 141-142.

H. Nissenbaum, "Casual Copying," Proceedings of the National Conference on Computing and Values, August 1991, 15-22.
 

H. Nissenbaum, Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life (Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009)

L. Introna and H. Nissenbaum, Facial Recognition Technology: A Survey of Policy and Implementation Issues, Report of the Center for Catastrophe Preparedness and Response, NYU (2009) (Download pdf)

M. Price and H. Nissenbaum (eds.), Academy and The Internet (New York, Peter Lang Publishing Company, 2004)

D. Johnson and H. Nissenbaum (Eds.), Computers, Ethics, and Social Values (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1995)

H. Nissenbaum, Emotion and Focus (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985)
 

TrackMeNot: (with Daniel Howe) 2006. A Firefox browser extension designed to protect web-search against identification, surveillance, and profiling.

Editorial Advisory Board, Encyclopedia of Science, Technology and Ethics (2005 MacMillan Reference, USA)

Associate Editor (and co-founder),  Journal of Ethics and Information Technology (Kluwer Academic Publishers)

Editorial Advisory Board, The Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality

Editorial Board, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Editorial Board, Research in Philosophy and Technology

Member, Advisory Board, Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), June, 2009 – present

Member, Programme Committee, 8th International Conference of Computer Ethics: Philosophical Inquiry, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece, June 2009

Co-organizer, Workshop on Network Design and Societal Values, National Science Foundation, Arlington, Virginia, September 2008

Co-organizer, DIMACS Workshop on Internet Privacy: Facilitating Seamless Data Movement with Appropriate Controls, September 2008

Member, Coordinating Group for NSF Network Science and Engineering (NetSCE) Initiative, 2008 - present

Co-director, NSF Graduate Workshop on Values in Design, August 2006 and 2008

Member, GENI Science Council, 2005-2007

Invited Participant, Symposium on E-Learning: New National and International Policy Perspectives, (download pdf) Boulder, CO, February 2006

National Academy of Sciences, NRC Committee on Privacy in an Information Age, May 2002 - present

Board of Advisors, Public Knowledge

Invited participant, National Science Foundation Workshop on Science, Technology and Democracy

Co-Chair, User Opt-in Working Group, GENI, 2008-present

Provost's Visiting Committee for the Communications and New Media Programme, National University of Singapore, March 2008

Member, Markle Connecting for Population Health Challenge Team, 2007

Program Committee, Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiry, 2007

Organizing Committee, National Science Foundation Science of Design Meeting for Principal Investigators

Selection Committee, SSRC Digital Cultures and Information Project, 2004

Workshop Co-Director (with Monroe Price), Public Values, System Design and the Public Domain, Rockefeller Foundation Study and Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy, March 2003

Workshop Director, 2002. Cross-disciplinary Workshop on Public Design, Information Law Institute. New York University School of Law

Program Committee, International Conference on Computer Ethics: A Philosophical Enquiry (CEPE'01), University of Lancaster, December 2001

Advisory Board, Public Knowledge

Advisory Board, Ethics Center in Science and Engineering on the World Wide Web

Executive Board, Society for Philosophy and Technology, 1996-present

Member, APA Committee on Philosophy and Computing

Program Committee, ACM Computing Policy Conference, Washington DC, May 1998

Program Committee, International Conference on Computer Ethics: A Philosophical Enquiry (CEPE'98), London School of Economics, December 1998

Conference Organizer, Design for Values: Ethical, Societal & Policy Dimensions for Information Technology, DIMACS National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center, 1998

Board of Trustees, e-thepeople, 2004-2006

Advisory Panel, Societal Dimensions of Engineering, Science and Technology, National Science Foundation 1999-2002

Committee Member, National Academy of Sciences, On Being a Researcher/Scholar in the Digital Age

Member, Sub-Commission on the Ethics of the Information Society, UNESCO World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST)

Member, ACM Committee on Licensing of Software Engineers

Research Fellow, Programme in Media Law and Policy, Oxford University

Advisory Committee, AAAS, Project on Anonymity on the Internet, 1997

Site Visit Evaluation Team, New Haven, Connecticut. National Science Foundation, Ethics and Values Studies Program

Invited participant, National Science Foundation Workshop on Human Information Processing and Decision Making in Complex Information Systems, Washington DC. April 2001

Director, Colloquium on Information Technology and Society, Information Law Institute of the NYU School of Law, 2000-present

Departmental Ph.D. Committee, 2009

Departmental Search Committee, 2005-06

Steinhardt Technology Steering Committee, 2004-06

Steinhardt Dean’s Advisory Committee for Associate Dean Search, 2004-05

Humanities Council Steering Committee, 2005-08

University Task Force on Culture and Communication, 2003-04

Service Award, Steinhardt School of Education, 2002-03

Chair, Departmental Search Committee, 2002-03

Chair, Study Committee for Departmental Policy and Priorities, 2003-04

Ph.D. Advising and Miscellaneous Departmental Committees

“Privacy in Context,” US France Young Engineering Scientist Symposium, US-NSF and Office of Science and Technology (France), Washington DC, July 2009

“What’s Wrong with Behavioral Advertising?” 8th International Conference of Computer Ethics: Philosophical Inquiry, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece, June 2009

“Respecting Privacy: Risk/Benefit versus Privacy,” Data Risk Workshop, NYU Stern Center for Digital Economy Research and IBM Research, New York, April 2009

“Privacy, Technology, and the Integrity of Social Life,” Conference on Privacy Rights and Wrongs: Balancing Moral Priorities for the 21st Century, Center for Ethics Education at Fordham University, April, 2009

“Terms of Service: A Play in One Act,” Symposium on Information Intermediaries in the Information Society, Center on Law and Information Policy, March 27, 2009 (download pdf)

“Privacy in Context,” Colloquium of the Philosophy Department and Center for Applied and Professional Ethics, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, March 2009

“Values at Play in Digital Games and TrackMeNot,” Colloquium of the Information Science Program, Cornell University, February 2009

“Privacy, Technology and the Integrity of Social Life,” Paduano Seminar in Business Ethics, Stern School of Business, NYU, February 2009

“Privacy and the Integrity of Social Life,” Conference on The Right to Privacy and Individual Liberties – from Ancient Times to the Cyberspace Age, Institute for American and Talmudic Law, January 2009

“Contextual Integrity and Court Records,” Conference on Privacy and Public Access to Court Records, William and Mary Law School, November, 2008.

“Does Privacy Still Matter in the Information Age,” Institute for Advanced Study, October 2008

“Privacy in Context,” Colloquium of the School of Social Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, October 2008

"Privacy in Organizations" (with Anupam Datta), NSF Workshop on Organizations and Innovation, NSF Headquarters, Arlington, VA, July 2008

"Contextual Integrity as a Normative Guide for Privacy," Distinguished Lecture Series, School of Information, University of California, Berkeley, April 2008

"Values in Design: Values@Play," Humanities Center Colloquium, Carnegie-Mellon University, April 2008

"Contextual Integrity as a Normative Guide for Privacy," Conference on Windows into the Soul: Surveillance in an Age of High Technology, Harvey-Mudd College, March 2008

"Contextual Integrity as a Normative Guide to Privacy," BSF/DINACS/Dy/Dan Workshop on Data Privacy, February 2008

"Contextual Integrity as a Normative Guide to Privacy," Colloquium of the Information Society Project, Yale School of Law, February 2008

"TrackMeNot: Politics through Technology," Connecticut-Trinity-Wesleyan Computer Science Distinguished Lecture Series, February 2008

"Deconstructing the Private/Public Dichotomy for the Sake of Privacy," CFP Privacy and Security Working Group: Communications Futures Program, MIT, October 2007

"Privacy as Contextual Integrity," (download pdf) CyLab Colloquium, Carnegie-Mellon University, October 2007

"Contextual Integrity," Goodbye Privacy Festival Symposium, Ars Electronica, Linz Austria, September 2007

"TrackMeNot: Politics through Technology," Santa Fe Institute, August 2007

"TrackMeNot: Contesting the Terms of Access to Knowledge Online," Conference on Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiry, San Diego, July 2007

"Deconstructing the Private/Public Distinction for the Sake of Privacy," presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, February 2007

"Trackmenot: A Right to Privacy in Search," Invited Panelist, Law of Search Engines Workshop, Haifa Center for Law and Technology, Haifa University, December 2006

"Deconstructing the Private/Public Distinction for the Sake of Privacy," Faculty Colloquium, Faculty of Law, University of Haifa, December 2006

"Privacy as Contextual Integrity" (download pdf), Invited Panelist, Conference on Consumer Protection in the Next Tech-Ade, Federal Trade Commission, Washington DC, November 2006

"Privacy and Information Technology: Trouble with the Private/Public Dichotomy," Invited Colloquium, Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions, Indiana University, October 2006

"Formal Representation of Privacy as Contextual Integrity," Invited talk, Privacy and Accountability Workshop, MIT, July 2006

"Contextual Integrity: A Conservative Approach to Privacy," (download pdf) Center for Information Technology Policy, Princeton University, April 2006

"Contextual Integrity in Ubicomp Design," Annual Meeting of the AAAS, St. Louis, February 2006

"Contextual Integrity: A Conservative Approach to Privacy," (download pdf) Yale University Technology and Ethics Working Group Speaker Series, November 2005

"Plagiarism, Self-Plagiarism, and Norms of Scientific Research," Conference on Plagiarism Across the Science Disciplines, NYU Medical Center, October 2005

"New Design Methods for Activist Gaming" (with M. Flanagan & D. Howe), International Conference of the Digital Games Research Association, Vancouver, June 2005

"A Cultural Approach to Privacy: Meeting the Challenges of Information Technology," Colloquium, Program in Science, Technology and Society, Drexel University, May 2005

"Values at Play," Command Lines: Conference on the Emergence of Governance in Global Cyberspace, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, April 2005

"Privacy as Contextual Integrity," Symposium on Law and Information Society, Fordham University Law School, April 2005

"Values at Play: Design Tradeoffs in Socially-Oriented Game Design" (with Mary Flanagan and Daniel Howe), CHI 2005, Oregon, April 2005

"Privacy in Context," Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, March 2005

"Anonymity and Contextual Integrity," "The Concealed: I Anonymity, Identity and the Prospect of Privacy," University of Ottawa, March 2005

"Contextual Integrity: Privacy as a Cultural Value" (download pdf), Glasscock Humanities Center, Texas A&M University, February 2005

"Securing the Internet as Public Space: Project Planning Meeting," American Academy of Arts and Sciences, December 2004

"Values as a Design Criterion: Challenges and Commitments," Workshop on New Directions in Understanding Ethics and Technology, University of Virginia, October 2004

"Privacy as Contextual Integrity," Seminar of the Computer Laboratory Security Group, University of Cambridge, U.K.,
July 2004

"Social and Ethical Implications of Computing," NYC Microsoft Research Lecture Series, May 2004

"Privacy as Contextual Integrity," Sapienta Colloquium, Philosophy Department, Dartmouth College, May 2004

"When Computer Security Meets National Security: Two Conceptions of Security Online," Conference on Computer Crime and Security, Yale Law School, March 2004

"Privacy as Contextual Integrity," Conference on Privacy-Preserving Data-Mining, DIMACS, Rutgers University, March 2004

Rock Ethics Lectures, Pennsylvania State University, February 2004

"Ethical and Cultural Foundations of Privacy," Conference on Technology, Values, and the Justice System, University of Washington School of Law, Seattle, January 2004

"Privacy and Contextual Integrity," Annual Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, Washington DC, December 2003

"Two Conceptions of Security Online," Presented at the Symposium on "The Dis/Simulations of War and Peace," Watson Institute, Brown University, June 2003.

"The Virtue of Commons-Based Peer Production," (with Yochai Benkler) Presented at the Conference on Computer Ethics - Philosophical Enquiry, Boston College, June 2003.

"Big Brother Technologies," Choices and Challenges, Virginia Tech Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, March 2003

"Two Conceptions of Trust Online," Conference on Trust and Honesty, Budapest Collegium, December 2002

"Private v. Public: A Red Herring for Privacy," Presentation to the New Jersey State Bar Association, Judicial Administration Forum on Privacy vs. Public Access: Court Records and Proceedings, September 2002

"Privacy Online and Contextual Integrity," Conference on the Future of Internet Regulation, Program in Law and Public Affairs, Princeton University, May 2002

"Privacy and Contextual Integrity: Where Philosophy Meets the Social Sciences," Summer Institute, SSRC Program on Information Technology, International Cooperation and Global Security, Columbia University, June 2002

"National Security and Personal Security: Competing Philosophical Conceptions of Network Security," Computer Ethics Philosophical Enquiry 2001, University of Lancaster, December 2001

"The Ethics of P2P" Panel Presentation. The O_Reilly Peer-to-Peer & Web Services Conference (download pdf) Washington DC. November 2001

"Competing Conceptions of Computer Security," Telecommunications Policy Research Conference. Alexandria, Virginia. November 2001

"Hackers and Other Contested Entities of Cyberspace," University Lecture Series, Carnegie-Mellon University. April 2001.

"Privacy and Contextual Integrity," School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study. March 2001 (Also presented at Friends of the Institute Forum, April 2001)

"Privacy in Public and Contextual Integrity," Workshop Series, Committee on Philosophy, Politics and Public Affairs and the Center for Information Policy, University of Maryland. February 2001

"Privacy and Technologies of Information," Joint Colloquium, Department of Philosophy and Information School, University of Washington, Seattle. January 2001

"Privacy and Technologies of Information," Joint Colloquium, Department of Computer Science and Centre for Applied Ethics, University of British Columbia. January 2001

"Can Trust be Secured Online?" Colloquium, Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University. December 2000

"The Politics of Search Engines" Colloquium, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT. November 2000

"Securing Trust" Conference on Trust Relationships.  Boston University School of Law. September 2000

"Securing Trust: Wisdom or Oxymoron?" Keynote Address. Internet Research 1.0: The State of the Interdiscipline, First meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers. September 2000

Invited Participant. Value Sensitive Design Workshop. University of Washington, Seattle. September 2000

"Can Trust be Secured Online?" Keynote Address. Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiry. Dartmouth College. July 2000

"Hackers and Other Contested Entities of Cyberspace," Conference on Social Ontology. Erasmus University Rotterdam. July 2000

"Securing Trust Online: Wisdom or Oxymoron?" Conference on A Free Information Ecology in the Digital Environment. New York University School of Law. April 2000

"The Politics of Search Engines," Innovation Policy Colloquium, New York University, School of Law. February 2000

Invited Panelist. Interdisciplinary Conference on the Impact of Technological Change on the Creation, Dissemination, and Protection of Intellectual Property. The Ohio State University College of Law. February 2000

Gaia Bernstein, 2005, NYU Law School, Dissertation Committee
Azi Lev-On, 2005, NYU Politics Department, Dissertation Committee
Bilge Yesil, 2005, NYU Department of Media, Culture & Communication, Dissertation Committee
Michael Zimmer, 2008, NYU Department of Media, Culture & Communication, Dissertation Committee Chair
Joseph Reagle, 2008, NYU Department of Media, Culture & Communication, Dissertation Committee Chair
Alice Marwick (in process), NYU Department of Media, Culture & Communication, Dissertation Committee
Travis Hall (in process), NYU Department of Media, Culture & Communication, Chair, Dissertation Committee