Jonathan Mayer
Mayer’s work treats security and privacy failures as both technical and institutional problems, showing why users’ choices need measurable, enforceable system behavior.
Jonathan Mayer is a computer scientist and lawyer at Princeton University whose research studies technology and law, with emphasis on security, consumer privacy, network management, surveillance, and online speech.
Web privacy and tracking
His research and technical work on web tracking helped connect browser-level observations to questions of user consent and enforcement. Princeton describes work with Arvind Narayanan on early Do Not Track software and policy proposals.
Bridging systems and institutions
Mayer’s career places computer-security questions in their legal and policy setting, examining how systems create observable risk and how institutions respond to it.
Timeline
- 2009Graduates from Princeton University.
- 2010sResearches web tracking, security, privacy, and technology policy.
- 2018Joins Princeton’s faculty after completing a Ph.D. in computer science and J.D. at Stanford.
- 2020sServes in public-technology advisory roles and continues Princeton research.
Jonathan Mayer
- Type
- Person
- Era
- 2000s-Present
- Known for
- Web tracking research; Do Not Track research; Technology, law, and public policy
- Tags
- privacy, web-security, technology-policy, tracking, academic-research
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