Arvind Narayanan

Arvind Narayanan is a professor of computer science at Princeton University and the director of the Center for Information Technology Policy. He was one of TIME's inaugural list of 100 most influential people in AI. Narayanan led the Princeton Web Transparency and Accountability Project to uncover how companies collect and use our personal information. His work was also among the first to show how machine learning reflects cultural stereotypes.He was awarded the Privacy Enhancing Technology Award for showing how publicly available social media and web information can be cross-referenced to find customers whose data has been "anonymized" by companies. Narayanan prototyped and developed Do Not Track in HTTP header fields.He is a co-author of the book AI Snake Oil and a newsletter of the same name which is read by 50,000 researchers, policy makers, journalists, and AI enthusiasts.