Meg Leta Jones

I am a Provost's Distinguished Associate Professor and cartoonist in the Communication, Culture & Technology (CCT) program at Georgetown University where I research rules and technological change. Ctrl+Z: The Right to be Forgotten, my first book, is about the social, legal, and technical issues surrounding digital oblivion. My second book project, The Character of Consent tells the transatlantic history of digital consent through the lens of the familiar cookie. 

 

I'm now turning to what I call the "new family privacy," which considers the ways changes in reproduction, education, social development, eldercare, and genealogy come together as a currently disparate but potentially powerful source of contemporary privacy practice. And I collaborate on some big projects with incredible Georgetown colleagues and students.​​

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Advised by Paul Ohm, I earned a Ph.D. from the ATLAS Institute at the University of Colorado, Engineering and Applied Science. Prior to pursuing a Ph.D., I earned a J.D. from the University of Illinois College of Law, where I focused on technology and information issues. Most recently I've trained to be a cartoonist with the Sequential Artists Workshop. Much of my work is pursued collaboratively as a founding faculty member with Georgetown's Center for Digital Ethics and a faculty fellow with the Institute for Technology Law & Policy. 

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