# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/helen-nissenbaum
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:59:47.182Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/helen-nissenbaum"
name: "Helen Nissenbaum"
slug: "helen-nissenbaum"
description: "Helen Nissenbaum is professor of information science at Cornell Tech. She is best known for the concept of \"contextual integrity\" and her work on privacy, privacy law, trust, and security in the online world. Specifically, contextual integrity has influenced the United States government's thinking about privacy issues. Nissenbaum co-created the TrackMeNot and AdNauseam browser extensions, which demonstrated the use of obfuscation to maintain user privacy."
tagline: "American philosopher and information scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Helen's_guest_lecture_at_University_of_Berkley.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1954-04-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.14
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.017712
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Helen Nissenbaum"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Nissenbaum"
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  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%94%D7%9C%D7%9F_%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%A1%D7%A0%D7%91%D7%90%D7%95%D7%9D"
    title: "הלן ניסנבאום"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Nissenbaum"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump