I’m professor and current director of the Information School and professor and former director of the Center for Law, Society & Justice  at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. I am also member of the Department of Medical History & Bioethics and an affiliate of the UW Law School. In 2018-19 I was a visiting researcher at the 4TU Centre for Ethics and Technology in the Netherlands. In 2012 I served as a senior advisor to the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues.

I work in the area of information ethics and policy. My current research concerns the nature and value of privacy, ethical concerns surrounding algorithmic decision systems (e.g., in criminal justice, in employee evaluation, in recommender systems), and higher education surveillance and learning analytics. My 2021 book, Algorithms and Autonomy: The Ethics of Automated Decision Systems (with Clinton Castro and Adam Pham) is available open access from Cambridge University Press.

I received my Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and J.D. from the University of Wisconsin Law School. Prior to joining the faculty at UW, I was a Greenwall Fellow in Bioethics and Health Policy at Johns Hopkins and Georgetown universities and a law clerk to Justice Ann Walsh Bradley of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Before attending graduate school I spent several years working for the National Park Service.