About the IAPP

Karen Levy is an assistant professor in the Department of Information Science at Cornell University, and associated faculty at Cornell Law School. She researches how law and technology interact to regulate social life, with particular focus on social and organizational aspects of surveillance. Much of Dr. Levy's research analyzes the uses of monitoring for social control in various contexts, from long-haul trucking to intimate relationships. She is also interested in how data collection uniquely impacts, and is contested by, marginalized populations. Dr. Levy holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Princeton University and a J.D. from Indiana University Maurer School of Law. Before joining Cornell, she was a postdoctoral fellow at New York University School of Law’s Information Law Institute and the Data and Society Research Institute. Dr. Levy’s academic work has been published in a number of scholarly journals, and she is currently completing a book manuscript on the future of workplace surveillance. She frequently writes for public audiences in venues like The Atlantic, Harvard Business Review, Pacific Standard, and The Los Angeles Times. Her research has been discussed on NPR and in the New York Times, Washington Post, The Guardian, Fast Company, Psychology Today, MIT Technology Review, and other publications.