David Carroll is a design and technology educator and researcher exploring the intersections of advertising, media, data, surveillance, privacy, platforms, interfaces, democracy, and cultures. Carroll’s legal challenge of the Cambridge Analytica companies under UK data protection law is documented in The Great Hack (Netflix 2019) and Trumping Democracy (Spicee 2018). Since 2023, Carroll has co-directed the Parsons MFA Design & Technology program. He is the recipient of Law and Philosophical Society prizes from Trinity College, Dublin. Carroll is on the board of Check My Ads Institute and administers federate.social in service to the field. He posts as @davidcarroll.org on Bluesky.
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