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Karen Levy

Karen Levy

DLI Affiliated Faculty

’m an assistant professor in the Department of Information Science at Cornell University, associated faculty at Cornell Law School, and field faculty in Science and Technology Studies, Sociology, and Data Science.

I research the legal, organizational, social, and ethical aspects of data-intensive technologies. I am interested in what happens when we use digital technologies to enforce rules and make decisions about people, particularly in contexts marked by conditions of inequality. A good deal of my research considers the impact of data-intensive technologies on work and workers; I am currently writing a book analyzing the emergence of electronic monitoring in the long-haul trucking industry. I also study the role of data collection technologies in intimate relationships, and how they contribute to practices of both care and control. (Vox made a really nice video about my trucking research, and Cornell Alumni magazine profiled my work on data collection and privacy.)

I have a PhD in Sociology from Princeton University, where my dissertation examined the development of legal and organizational surveillance in the United States trucking industry. I have a JD from Indiana University’s Maurer School of Law. I’ve been a New America National Fellow, a postdoctoral fellow at New York University School of Law’s Information Law Institute, and a fellow at the Data and Society Research Institute.

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