Maggie Oates
Policy Consultant - Privacy at Consumer Reports
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMaggie Oates is a privacy-focused policy consultant with a decade of experience bridging usable privacy research and practical consumer advocacy at Consumer Reports. A PhD drop-out from Carnegie Mellon's usable privacy program, she combines rigorous research, hands-on technical familiarity from embedded systems and robotics, and arts-based methods to make privacy and safety work for real people. Her work spans leading privacy research, policy translation, and educating others, with a particular interest in how privacy intersects with technology policy, sex, and labor. Based in Pittsburgh, she brings a curious, human-centered approach and a knack for turning Internet standards history into actionable insight for regulators and product teams.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
West Lafayette High SchoolDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Carnegie Mellon University - School of Computer ScienceMaster of Science - MS, Master of Science - MS at Carnegie Mellon UniversityBachelor of Science (BS), Bachelor of Science (BS) at Indiana University
English, Arabic, Spanish, French, American Sign Language
Github Skills (33)
twine10
web-application9
ghost8
nodejs8
stackexchange8
sugarcube8
javascript7
cms7
keybase7
react6
chat6
end-to-end-encryption6
pgp6
conversations5
csv5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
moates/onlyBans
Dec 2022 - Apr 2024
Contributions:1 review, 15 PRs, 43 pushes in 1 year 4 months
moates/moates.github.io
Oct 2016 - Jul 2024
Contributions:24 pushes, 4 branches in 7 years 10 months
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