Michael Zimmer
@michaelzimmer.bsky.social
Privacy & data ethics scholar. Professor in Computer Science and Director of @MUDataEthics.bsky.social at Marquette University. I also curate @ZuckerbergFiles.bsky.social
Just got a review request email with this compensation model. Peer-review crisis solved!
November 20, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Just got a review request email with this compensation model. Peer-review crisis solved!
Starting the trek to Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for #AoIR2025. Excited about our "AoIR Ethics in Action" session (Thursday, 16-Oct 2:00pm - 3:30pm in Auditorium). Details in thread below.
October 13, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Starting the trek to Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for #AoIR2025. Excited about our "AoIR Ethics in Action" session (Thursday, 16-Oct 2:00pm - 3:30pm in Auditorium). Details in thread below.
Reminder: We are thrilled to welcome @alexhanna.bsky.social co-author of "The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want" to Milwaukee on October 6, 2025 for a book talk at Boswell Books. Free & open to the public. Please join us! www.eventbrite.com/e/alex-hanna...
September 30, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Reminder: We are thrilled to welcome @alexhanna.bsky.social co-author of "The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want" to Milwaukee on October 6, 2025 for a book talk at Boswell Books. Free & open to the public. Please join us! www.eventbrite.com/e/alex-hanna...
We are so screwed.
Kennedy’s Advisory Panel Votes to Limit M.M.R.V. Vaccine for Children Under 4
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/h...
Kennedy’s Advisory Panel Votes to Limit M.M.R.V. Vaccine for Children Under 4
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/h...
September 19, 2025 at 12:26 PM
We are so screwed.
Kennedy’s Advisory Panel Votes to Limit M.M.R.V. Vaccine for Children Under 4
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/h...
Kennedy’s Advisory Panel Votes to Limit M.M.R.V. Vaccine for Children Under 4
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/h...
Looking back, I still think this closing passage may be the most meaningful paragraph I’ve ever written.
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link.springer.com/article/10.1...
August 29, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Looking back, I still think this closing passage may be the most meaningful paragraph I’ve ever written.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
It’s been 15 years since I published “‘But the data is already public’: On the Ethics of Research in Facebook,” which raised early concerns about privacy and ethics in the “Tastes, Ties, and Time” (T3) study. The call to action I made then remains an unfinished -- but ongoing -- project.
August 29, 2025 at 9:45 PM
It’s been 15 years since I published “‘But the data is already public’: On the Ethics of Research in Facebook,” which raised early concerns about privacy and ethics in the “Tastes, Ties, and Time” (T3) study. The call to action I made then remains an unfinished -- but ongoing -- project.
For over a decade I’ve curated The Zuckerberg Files @zuckerbergfiles.bsky.social, a digital archive of everything Mark Zuckerberg says in public.
I later made a Twitter account for a similar project focused on Elon Musk. That never got off the ground, but today X suspended that account.
I later made a Twitter account for a similar project focused on Elon Musk. That never got off the ground, but today X suspended that account.
June 23, 2025 at 4:50 PM
For over a decade I’ve curated The Zuckerberg Files @zuckerbergfiles.bsky.social, a digital archive of everything Mark Zuckerberg says in public.
I later made a Twitter account for a similar project focused on Elon Musk. That never got off the ground, but today X suspended that account.
I later made a Twitter account for a similar project focused on Elon Musk. That never got off the ground, but today X suspended that account.
The 2025 Annual Steve Jones Internet Lecture at #ICA25 features @cfiesler.bsky.social Casey Fiesler: "The Internet is Good for You. The Internet Is Bad for You”
June 14, 2025 at 9:12 PM
The 2025 Annual Steve Jones Internet Lecture at #ICA25 features @cfiesler.bsky.social Casey Fiesler: "The Internet is Good for You. The Internet Is Bad for You”
Excited to see #AoIR2025 notifications are going out, and that our @aoir.bsky.social Ethics panel on "Aoir Ethics in Action: Guidelines, Regulations, and Practices Across Diverse Global Communities" has been accepted. This panel features five amazing papers. 1/6
May 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Excited to see #AoIR2025 notifications are going out, and that our @aoir.bsky.social Ethics panel on "Aoir Ethics in Action: Guidelines, Regulations, and Practices Across Diverse Global Communities" has been accepted. This panel features five amazing papers. 1/6
Every paragraph of this story confirms the absurdity of this whole endeavor. Here's a good one:
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
April 25, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Every paragraph of this story confirms the absurdity of this whole endeavor. Here's a good one:
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
The @nytimes.com goes all in on his bullshit excuse for delaying his “robots”. And really? THIS is the clearest signal of how the trade war is affecting US businesses? JFC.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/b...
April 23, 2025 at 11:15 AM
The @nytimes.com goes all in on his bullshit excuse for delaying his “robots”. And really? THIS is the clearest signal of how the trade war is affecting US businesses? JFC.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/b...
@ceciliaaragon.bsky.social closes her #SIGCSE2025 keynote with a set of directives on building "human-centered AI" -- all of which are key areas of focus for us at @mudataethics.bsky.social as we train the next generation of computer and data professionals grounded in social & ethical values.
February 27, 2025 at 2:53 PM
@ceciliaaragon.bsky.social closes her #SIGCSE2025 keynote with a set of directives on building "human-centered AI" -- all of which are key areas of focus for us at @mudataethics.bsky.social as we train the next generation of computer and data professionals grounded in social & ethical values.
I'm at #SIGCSE2025 and the opening keynote by @ceciliaaragon.bsky.social reminds us of "Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine" (published in 1958) and what it can help us understand about AI and education & learning today.
February 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I'm at #SIGCSE2025 and the opening keynote by @ceciliaaragon.bsky.social reminds us of "Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine" (published in 1958) and what it can help us understand about AI and education & learning today.
Maybe it is now time for me to do something with this.
February 8, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Maybe it is now time for me to do something with this.
what the what?!?
February 3, 2025 at 6:37 PM
what the what?!?
What a f*king sh*tshow.
January 29, 2025 at 6:04 PM
What a f*king sh*tshow.
Based on a couple of factors I had the (unpopular) need to assign something over Thankgiving break, so I asked them to find someone to watch an AI/Algorithm documentary with:
November 30, 2024 at 6:21 PM
Based on a couple of factors I had the (unpopular) need to assign something over Thankgiving break, so I asked them to find someone to watch an AI/Algorithm documentary with:
We also had @cfiesler.bsky.social with us today for the 2024 AI Ethics Symposium. Such a great day.
November 22, 2024 at 3:21 AM
We also had @cfiesler.bsky.social with us today for the 2024 AI Ethics Symposium. Such a great day.
So excited to have @alondra.bsky.social with us today for the 2024 AI Ethics Symposium at Marquette Center for Data, Ethics, and Society.
November 21, 2024 at 3:44 PM
So excited to have @alondra.bsky.social with us today for the 2024 AI Ethics Symposium at Marquette Center for Data, Ethics, and Society.
Thrilled to share that the Marquette Center for Data, Ethics, and Society and the Northwestern Mutual Data Science Institute are hosting the 2024 AI Ethics Symposium on November 21 at Marquette University. Keynotes by @alondra.bsky.social and @cfiesler.bsky.social! www.marquette.edu/ethics-of-bi...
October 3, 2024 at 9:19 PM
Thrilled to share that the Marquette Center for Data, Ethics, and Society and the Northwestern Mutual Data Science Institute are hosting the 2024 AI Ethics Symposium on November 21 at Marquette University. Keynotes by @alondra.bsky.social and @cfiesler.bsky.social! www.marquette.edu/ethics-of-bi...