David Carroll is associate professor of media design and former Director of the MFA Design and Technology graduate program at Parsons School of Design at The New School. He is known for legally challenging Cambridge Analytica and related companies in the UK courts to recapture his 2016 voter profile using European data protection law.

Featured in The Great Hack (2019) on Netflix, his data quest has appeared in WIRED, The Guardian, Motherboard, The Boston Review, Slate, Mother Jones, and the international press more widely. Formerly CEO of a failed tech startup backed by Hearst and incubated at NYC Media Lab and NY Media Center by IFP, Glossy visually organized digtial archives using machine learning and social content recommendation engines. This experience deep in industry helped form the basis of his research, legal efforts, and public engagement on data rights.

His earlier scholarship on mobile media funded by research grants included support from Pearson Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, and Nokia Research Centers. He is active on Twitter @profcarroll.

The Design and Technology programs at Parsons present Cloud Salon, a lecture series that invites artists, designers, technologists, and industry professionals to present projects and to engage in direct conversations with participants. This semester Cloud Salon will focus on featuring full-time faculty at The New School with a creative practice at the intersection of Design and Technology.