Dr. Jennifer King is the Privacy and Data Policy Fellow at the Stanford University Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. An information scientist by training, Dr. King is a recognized expert in information privacy. Sitting at the intersection of human-computer interaction, law and policy, and the social sciences, her research examines the public’s understanding and expectations of online privacy, the social impacts of technology design, and the policy implications of emerging technologies. Her current areas of research focus include AI and data policy, the use of consumer data for AI model training, regulating digital design, data broker compliance with the California Consumer Privacy Act, and manipulative algorithmic and interface design.
Her past work includes projects focusing on digital consent, genetic privacy, mobile application platforms, location privacy, and digital surveillance. Her scholarship has been recognized for its impact on policymaking by the Future of Privacy Forum, and she has been an invited speaker before the Federal Trade Commission and has testified before the U.S. Congress. In 2024 UC Berkeley awarded her their inaugural Tech Integrity Award for excellence in academic research.
Dr. King completed her doctorate and master’s degrees in Information Management and Systems at the University of California, Berkeley School of Information. Prior to joining HAI, Dr. King was the Director of Consumer Privacy at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law school from 2018 to 2020. Before coming to Stanford, she was a co-director of the Center for Technology, Society, and Policy, a graduate student-led research center at UC Berkeley, and was a privacy researcher at the Samuelson Law, Technology, and Public Policy Clinic at Berkeley Law. She received her undergraduate degree in Political Science and Sociology from the University of California, Irvine. Prior to entering academia she worked in security and in product management for several Internet companies, most notably Yahoo!.
