About Me

2010 - photo by Peg Skorpinski

Jennifer King is a social technologist who draws upon her training in the social sciences and human-computer interaction to investigate the issues that arise when technology and society collide. Most recently as a researcher at the Samuelson Law, Technology, and Public Policy Clinic at UC Berkeley’s School of Law, Ms. King focused on privacy and security on the Internet, in sensor networks, and in ubiquitous computing environments (including RFID and video surveillance technologies), usable security, and technology policy issues. Ms. King received her master’s degree in Information Science in 2006 from UC Berkeley’s School of Information (“I-School”). Prior to her research career, Ms. King worked in security and product management for several Internet companies, including Yahoo!, where she was an online community expert. She is currently a Ph.D candidate at UC Berkeley’s School of Information.