Michael Zimmer, PhD, is a privacy and data ethics scholar whose work focuses on digital privacy & surveillance, the ethics of big data, internet research ethics, and the broader social & ethical dimensions of emerging digital technologies. Zimmer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Marquette University. Zimmer received his PhD in 2007 from the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. He was a Student Fellow at the Information Law Institute at NYU Law from 2004-2007, and was the Microsoft Resident Fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School for 2007-2008, and remains an Affiliated Fellow. From 2008-2019, Zimmer was on the faculty of the School of Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he also served as Director of the Center for Information Policy Research. Zimmer joined the Department of Computer Science at Marquette University in 2019.