Kenneth C. Laudon was a professor of Information Systems at the Stern School of Business at New York University.

[3] Laudon's third book was Dossier Society: Value Choices in the Design of National Information Systems (Columbia University Press, 1986).

[4] In Dossier Society, Laudon argued that the design and uses of new computing and telecommunications systems, such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation National Computerized Criminal History System, were creating what he called a “dossier society” that would be increasingly based on a person’s data image.

[5][6] Laudon subsequently authored an influential article, "Markets and Privacy" (Communications of the ACM, 1996).

[13] Laudon is also the author a number of academic articles with respect to the impacts of information systems.