Nick Doty (npdoty)

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Enacting Privacy in Internet Standards, doctoral dissertation, December 2020.

Curriculum vitae, 2025.

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Currently thinking about: privacy, fascism, digital ID.

Recent work

• Organized and presented at the IAB/W3C Workshop on Age-Based Restrictions on Content Access, October 2025.
• Digital IDs: We don't want a "papers, please" Web; No Phone Home; safe, secure, accessible; User considerations for credentials on the Web, 2025.
• Spoke to ABC Nightly News about Amazon Web Services cloud outage, October 2025.
• Co-chairing the W3C Privacy Working Group, and publishing drafts of a Global Privacy Control specification.
• Discussed the role of the public interest technologist on the Tech Talks podcast, May 2025.
• Spoke on supporting human rights in Web standards at the 30th anniversary celebration of the W3C, September 2024.
• Submitted a position paper on preferences for AI training, to consider the interests of privacy and research, not just copyright, and to note the opportunity for standardization to help, September 2024.
• Hosted a workshop (at CDT, May 2024) and helped propose IETF standardization of a Red Cross digital emblem, to keep humanitarian aid safe from cyberattack.
• It's time to standardize the Global Privacy Control: proposed a charter for a new Privacy Working Group, and commented to Colorado on GPC as a universal opt-out mechanism, December 2023.
• Commented to the TSA on opaque and premature proposals to adopt mobile driver's licenses, with the ACLU, EFF and EPIC, October 2023.
• Published a report on the policy implications of novel network slicing technology: Slicing the Network: Maintaining Neutrality, Protecting Privacy, and Promoting Competition, with Mallory Knodel, April 2023.
• Responded to the call for input from the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on human rights and technical standard-setting, with W3C and CDT colleagues, March 2023.
• Wrote about changing governance at W3C and was nominated (but not elected) to the W3C Advisory Board, Winter 2022.
• Filed comments to the FTC regarding commercial surveillance practices, including harmful advertising and more meaningful transparency and consumer control, with CDT colleagues, November 2022.
• Published a first public working draft of Privacy Principles for the Web, with the W3C TAG, May 2022.
• Used BigBang to measure and analyze organizational affiliations of IETF standard-setting participants.
• Supported the Transit Equity Campaign to advocate for riders, workers and communities of color in transit planning.
• Developed a Green New Deal for Durham, Spring 2020. Durham can lead the way in responding to the climate crisis with local, equitable solutions.
• Participated in the Future Paths to a Public Interest Internet Infrastructure workshop at Harvard Kennedy School, September 2019.
• Blogged "Adding another permission? Questions and suggestions" on the W3C blog, July 2019.
• Published Mitigating Browser Fingerprinting in Web Specifications, a W3C Interest Group Note, with PING, March 2019.
• Released v0.2.0 of BigBang, a toolkit for studying communications data from collaborative projects, July 2018.
• Presented to workshop on Multistakeholder participation in global Internet standard-setting at University of Warwick - Brussels, May 2018.
• Presented to Protocol Governance and Power seminar at the Alan Turing Institute, March 2018.
• Hosted I School Crypto Party 2017, January 2017.
• Signatory to neveragain.tech, December 2016.
• Privacy Is an Essentially Contested Concept: A Multi-Dimensional Analytic for Mapping Privacy. published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A, with Deirde K. Mulligan and Colin Koopman, November 2016.
• Taught Technology & Delegation Lab, with Deirde K. Mulligan, Fall 2016.
• Presented to the Human Rights Protocol Considerations Research Group, IETF 95, April 2016.
• Design Wars: The FBI, Apple and hundreds of millions of phones on the Citizen Technologist blog, with Deirde K. Mulligan, March 2016.
• An array of tools to ensure security and privacy of the Open Web Platform on the W3C Blog, December 2015.
• Published Fingerprinting Guidance for Web Specification Authors (Draft), November 2015.
• Hosted the Center for Technology, Society & Policy Proposal Hackathon and Anti-Harassment Reading Group, Fall 2015.
• Announced the Center for Technology, Society & Policy at UC Berkeley, July 2015.
• Published Last Call of Tracking Compliance and Scope (DNT). Comments welcome! July 2015.
• Hosted Privacy Lab, a meet-up for Bay Area privacy folks, May 2015.
• Reviewing for Privacy in Internet and Web Standard-Setting, presented [pdf] at the 2015 International Workshop on Privacy Engineering, May 2015.
• Taught Technology & Delegation, an I School seminar, with Deirde K. Mulligan, Spring 2015.
• Privacy by Design Workshop: Concepts and Connections on the Computing Community Consortium blog, with Richmond Wong, February 2015.
• Crypto Party 2014, our second annual Crypto Party at the I School, November 2014.
• Protocol for Open Opt-in Online/Offline Friendship, an Internet-Draft for "Add me as a friend" buttons, with Andrew Badr, October 2014.
• Glass-to-Flickr, a Transparent Eyeball production, to post photos taken through Glass to Flickr, June 2014.
• "On Exactitude in Science", a Web adaptation of Jorge Luis Borges, a "Notable Map" in the Mapping and its Discontents Symposium, November 2013.
• Signatory to Technologists' Comment to the Director of National Intelligence Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technology, October 2013.
• Internet Multistakeholder Processes and Techno-Policy Standards [pdf], with Deirde K. Mulligan, in Journal on Telecommunications and High Technology Law, Spring 2013.
• Privacy Design Patterns and Anti-Patterns [pdf], presented [pdf] to the Trustbusters Workshop at the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security. July 2013.
• W3C Workshop: Do Not Track and Beyond, co-chaired with Jan Schallaböck. November 2012.
• Conference on Web Privacy Measurement, co-chaired with Chris Hoofnagle and Jonathan Mayer. June 2012.
• Do Not Track: The Future of Web Privacy, talk at the Web 2.0 Security and Privacy Workshop. May 2012.
• Privacy and Policy in Social Media, tutorial at the Legal Frontiers in Digital Media conference. May 2012.
• PrivacyPatterns.org with Mohit Gupta, patterns for practical privacy-by-design, announced at SXSWi. March 2012.
• On the W3C blog, Progress and support for Do Not Track in Brussels, an update on the Tracking Protection Working Group. February 2012.
• Report on the W3C Workshop on Web Tracking and User Privacy and follow-up blog posts re: Do Not Track on the W3C blog, Freedom-to-Tinker and Technology | Academics | Policy. Spring 2011.
• Technology and Policy Lab, a graduate course co-taught with Deirde K. Mulligan. Spring 2011. (See the course wiki.)
• Geolocation privacy and application platforms, with Erik Wilde, in Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Security and Privacy in GIS and LBS, November 2010.
• Simple Policy Negotiation for Location Disclosure [pdf], with Erik Wilde, W3C Workshop on Privacy and Data Usage Control, October 2010. (See presented slides [pdf].)
• Information Organization Lab, a graduate course co-taught with Ryan Greenberg. Fall 2010. (See the 2009 version too.)
• MeLo: The Meaningful Location Project, with Ryan Greenberg, Mohit Gupta, Karen Nomorosa and Steph Pakrul. May 2010.
• Privacy Issues of the W3C Geolocation API, with Deirde K. Mulligan and Erik Wilde, February 2010.
• Personalized ontologies of location [pdf], presentation to the Friday Afternoon Seminar, November 2009.
• A meaningful ontology of location: From (37.852, -122.252) to home and back again [pdf], presentation to the Friday Afternoon Seminar, October 2009.
• Who's using the W3C Geolocation API? September 2009.
• How do websites know where I am? August 2009.
• The case for a location metasystem [pdf], in the ACM Digital Library, Second International Workshop on Location and the Web, April 2009.
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