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  • Fellow / Faculty Associate, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University
  • Associate Professor and York Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence, Data Governance, and the Law, York University, Canada

Jonathon Penney is a legal scholar and social scientist based in Toronto, where he is Associate Professor and York Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence, Data Governance, and the Law at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University. He is also a long time Faculty Associate at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and long time Research Fellow at the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab. His award-winning research on privacy, security, and technology has received national and international attention, including coverage in the Washington Post, the New York Times, Reuters International, The Guardian, and Le Monde, among others, and has been profiled in WIRED and Harvard Magazine.

He is the author of a new book "Chilling Effects: Repression, Conformity, and Power in the Digital Age" (Cambridge University Press, 2026).

Experience

  • 2020–present
    Fellow & Faculty Associate, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University
  • 2020–present
    Associate Professor and York Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence, Data Governance, and the Law, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
  • 2012–present
    Research Fellow, The Citizen Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto

Education

  • 2016 
    Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, DPhil, Information, Communication, and the Social Sciences
  • 2009 
    Columbia Law School, Law Degree

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