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Nick Doty

Senior Technologist

Nick Doty is a Senior Technologist at the Center for Democracy & Technology, where he works to support privacy and human rights on the Internet and the Web, particularly through the design of technical standards.

Nick received his PhD at the UC Berkeley School of Information, studying multistakeholder technical standard-setting processes and their impacts on Internet security and privacy. At Berkeley, he co-founded the Center for Technology, Society & Policy — a multidisciplinary research and design/build center focusing on the emergent social and policy issues arising from the development and adoption of technology — and taught courses on Web development and tech policy.

With the World Wide Web Consortium, Nick managed the Do Not Track standardization process and helped build a process of privacy reviews for new Web features. Previously, he worked as a software engineer at Microsoft and studied philosophy at Amherst College.

Find more on Nick’s personal website, or find him on Mastodon.