Nick Doty
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Education

npdoty@ischool.berkeley.edu

School of Information — Doctor of Philosophy in Information Science
University of California, Berkeley+1 (510) 859-3689
300 Blackwell St, #317
Durham, NC 27701

2011 - 2020

School of Information — Master of Information Management & Systems 2008 - 2010
University of California, Berkeley
Amherst College — Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy magna cum laude

2002 - 2006

Experience
Graduate Student Researcher
UC Berkeley

2011 - 2020

Conducted dissertation research on the privacy and security implications of Internet andWeb standard-setting (including Do Not Track); multistakeholder governance models; andprivacy decision-making in software engineering. Helped organize events on privacy-bydesign and cybersecurity research.
For more info, see:
• Enacting Privacy in Internet Standards, doctoral dissertation• publications (below) in computer science, law, philosophy and Web standards• privacypatterns.org, a design pattern library for solutions to privacy problems• BigBang, a software toolkit to study communications data in collaborative projects
Founding Director
Center for Technology, Society & Policy
UC Berkeley

2015 - 2016

Co-founded and directed a multidisciplinary research and design/build center focused onemergent social and policy issues of technology, including: engineering ethics; technology
and well-being; infrastructure, standards and governance; and digital citizenship.
Organized hackathons, reading groups, happy hours, career events and expert panels.
Developed a Fellowship program and supported 28 fellows working on 11 collaborative
projects in our inaugural year.
For more info, see: ctsp.berkeley.edu
Lecturer / Graduate Student Instructor
Information Organization Lab; Technology & Policy Lab; Technology & Delegation
UC Berkeley
2009 - 2016
Developed and co-taught the Technology & Delegation Lab with Deirdre K. Mulligan, agraduate course to provide hands-on experience evaluating the technical and policy impacts of software development, standard-setting and government regulation. Provided
teaching assistance and collected curricular resources for Technology & Delegation seminars. Developed and co-taught the Information Organization Lab, a graduate course inhands-on rapid Web development to prototype information organization tools.
For more info, see: bit.ly/techdel16

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300 Blackwell St, #317
Durham, NC 27701

Privacy Analyst
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)2011 - 2015

Promoted the development of Web standards to support online privacy. Supported theTracking Protection Working Group and encouraged consensus development of standards
for Do Not Track. Staffed the Privacy Interest Group, developing guidelines for specification authors, browser implementers and Web developers on supporting Web privacy, andcoordinated with various Working Groups and other standard-setting bodies over the privacy implications of standards. Organized workshops and meetings to enable discussionof Web privacy issues by a variety of stakeholders.
For more info, see: w3.org/Privacy
Software Development Engineer in Test
Microsoft2006 - 2008

Designed and implemented automated test cases to systematically evaluate and improve
the quality of the communications and workflow frameworks (WF/WCF) in Windows Vistaand application monitoring in BizTalk Server. Led effort to analyze crash report data fromcustomers to isolate software problems.

Publications
Doty, Nick. 2020. “Enacting Privacy in Internet Standards.” Ph.D. dissertation. Advisor: Deirdre
K. Mulligan. University of California, Berkeley.
Doty, Nick. 2019. “Mitigating Browser Fingerprinting in Web Specifications.” Interest Group
Note. Privacy Interest Group (PING). World Wide Web Consortium.
Doty, Nick, Heather West, Justin Brookman, Sean Harvey, and Erica Newland. 2019. “Tracking Compliance and Scope.” Working Group Note. Tracking Protection Working Group. World
Wide Web Consortium.
Mulligan, Deirdre K., Colin Koopman, and Nick Doty. 2016. “Privacy is an essentially contested
concept: a multi-dimensional analytic for mapping privacy.” Philosophical Transactions of theRoyal Society of London A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 374 (2083).
Doty, Nick. 2015. “Reviewing for Privacy in Internet and Web Standard-Setting.” In 2015 IEEE
Security and Privacy Workshops (SPW), 185–92. International Workshop on Privacy Engineering.
Doty, Nick, and Deirdre K. Mulligan. 2013. “Internet Multistakeholder Processes and TechnoPolicy Standards: Initial Reflections on Privacy at the World Wide Web Consortium.” Journal
on Telecommunications and High Technology Law 11.
Doty, Nick, and Mohit Gupta. 2013. “Privacy Design Patterns and Anti-Patterns: Patterns Misapplied and Unintended Consequences.” In A Turn for the Worse: Trustbusters for User Interfaces Workshop at the Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security.

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npdoty@ischool.berkeley.edu+1 (510) 859-3689
300 Blackwell St, #317
Durham, NC 27701

Doty, Nick, and Erik Wilde. 2010. “Geolocation Privacy and Application Platforms.” In Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Security and Privacy in GISand LBS - SPRINGL ’10, 65.
Doty, Nick, Deirdre K. Mulligan, and Erik Wilde. 2010. “Privacy Issues of the W3C Geolocation
API.” 2010–038. UC Berkeley, School of Information.
Doty, Nick. 2009. “The Case for a Location Metasystem.” In Proceedings of the 2ndInternational Workshop on Location and the Web - LOCWEB ’09, 1–3.

Talks and Events
Presented “Mitigating browser Fingerprinting in Web Specifications” to the Multistakeholder
participation in global Internet standard-setting workshop. University of Warwick - Brussels.
May 2018.
Presented “Standard-setting Process and Internet Privacy” to the Protocol Governance andPower seminar. Alan Turing Institute. March 2018.
Presented “Researching privacy, security and other values in standard-setting” to the HumanRights Protocol Considerations Research Group. IETF 95. April 2016.
Co-chair, Do Not Track and Beyond Workshop. UC Berkeley. November 2012.
Co-chair, Conference on Web Privacy Measurement. UC Berkeley. June 2012.
“Do Not Track: The Future of Web Privacy.” Keynote talk, Web 2.0 Security & Privacy
Workshop. May 2012.
Presented PrivacyPatterns.org on the Mobile Privacy: Developer Kits & Tips panel. SXSWi.
March 2012.
For a more comprehensive list of invited talks, blog posts on tech policy issues, hostedworkshops, courses taught and online projects, see: npdoty.name.