David R. Carroll is an associate professor of media design and the associate director of the MFA Design and Technology program at Parsons School of Design, The New School. Notably, he legally challenged Cambridge Analytica in the UK over the 2016 US presidential election, leading to the company’s only criminal conviction by the Information Commissioner’s Office. His work on this case is featured in the BAFTA and Emmy-nominated Netflix documentary The Great Hack (2019).
Carroll’s writings on data privacy have appeared in WIRED, PAPER Magazine, Quartz, The Guardian, Motherboard, and The Boston Review. He received awards from Trinity College Dublin’s Philosophical Society and Law Society in 2019, holds an AB with Highest Honors from Bowdoin College, and an MFA from Parsons. A former entrepreneur, he co-founded a machine-learning startup backed by Hearst and NYC Media Lab, which deepened his insights into the troubling realm of data privacy.