About David R. Carroll

David R. Carroll

Associate Professor of Media Design, Parsons School of Design, The New School.

I design and teach interactive media at Parsons, where I have taught since 1999 and directed the MFA Design and Technology program. I requested my data from Cambridge Analytica under UK law, complained to the Information Commissioner, filed a claim in the High Court, and testified to lawmakers in the UK, the European Union, Canada, and New York. I serve on the board of Check My Ads Institute.

Testimony.log

The Cambridge Analytica case and government testimony
2017-07Complaint to the UK Information Commissioner concerning Cambridge Analytica and SCL.
2018-02-08UK Parliament, DCMS Committee inquiry into disinformation and “fake news”: oral evidence, Washington, D.C.
2018-03Claim filed against SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica under the Data Protection Act 1998, High Court of Justice, England and Wales.
2018-06-04European Parliament, Civil Liberties Committee (LIBE), Brussels.
2019-02-05House of Commons of Canada, Ethics Committee (ETHI), Ottawa.
2019-11-22New York State Senate hearing on consumer data and privacy online, New York City.

The Great Hack

Poster for The Great Hack, a Netflix documentary, July 24, 2019.
I’m most well-known for appearing as a subject in the original Netflix documentary The Great Hack (2019) chronicling my legal challenge against Cambridge Analytica.
Netflix, 2019

Writing