Jon is a legal scholar and social scientist who does research at the intersection of law, technology, and human rights, with strong interdisciplinary and empirical dimensions.
In addition to being an affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, he is a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School; a Research Fellow at the Citizen Lab based at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy; and a Research Associate of the Civil Servant Project, which will based at Cornell University’s Department of Communications starting in the Fall 2019.
A native of Halifax, Canada, he studied law at Columbia Law School as a Fulbright Scholar and at Oxford as a Mackenzie King Scholar. He holds a doctorate in “Information, Communication, and the Social Sciences” from the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford (Balliol College, 2016). He has previously spent time as a Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center and more recently as a Research Affiliate of Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy. As an affiliate, he will work on projects exploring the role of established and emerging technologies in public and private sector surveillance, content moderation, legal enforcement, and other corporate/regulatory practices. This includes a research exploring how cyberharassment and intimate privacy protections can empower the online speech and engagement of victims, as well as work on a book, forthcoming in Cambridge University Press (2020), on the impact of surveillance, legal automation, and other digital/technological threats.
