Meg Leta Jones is a professor in and chair of the Communication, Culture & Technology department at Georgetown University, where she researches rules and technological change with a focus on privacy, automation, and families. She is also a founding faculty member of the Center for Digital Ethics and a faculty affiliate with the Institute for Technology Law & Policy at Georgetown Law Center.
Her first book, Ctrl+Z: The Right to be Forgotten, examines the social, legal, and technical issues surrounding digital oblivion, while her second book project, The Character of Consent: The History of Cookies and Future of Technology Policy, tells the transatlantic history of digital consent through the lens of a familiar technical object.
Much of Meg's current work centers on family technology policy, working with policymakers at the local, state, and national levels on topics ranging from social media and edtech to eldercare and ancestry platforms. Alongside this, she collaborates with Georgetown scholars on Redesigning the Governance Stack, a project to overhaul the administrative state, and with Paul Ohm on the Tech Impact Lab, where students are trained to do technical investigations in partnership with state attorney general offices.
Academic Appointment(s)
- Primary
- Professor, Graduate - Communication, Culture, and Technology Program
- Secondary
- Professor, Kennedy Institute of Ethics