Michael Zimmer is a privacy and social media scholar. He currently is an assistant professor in the School of Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and co-director of the Center for Information Policy Research.[1] Zimmer serves on the executive committee of the Association of Internet Researchers,[2] and is on the advisory board of the Future of Privacy Forum.[3] He was the Microsoft Resident Fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School from 2007-2008.[4]
Zimmer was featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education for his research criticizing the research ethics of a Harvard-sponsored research project that harvested Facebook profiles of an entire cohort of undergraduate students.[5] He has also appeared on the National Public Radio shows Science Friday[6] and Morning Edition,[7] as well as in the New York Times and other media outlets.[8]