He currently is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at Marquette University and Director of the Center for Data, Ethics, and Society.
[1] Zimmer is on the advisory board of the Future of Privacy Forum,[2] and was on the executive committee of the Association of Internet Researchers from 2009-2016.
[3] He was the Microsoft Resident Fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School from 2007-2008.
[5] He has appeared on the National Public Radio shows Science Friday[6] and Morning Edition.
[10][11] Zimmer published a critique of Zuckerberg in The Washington Post to commemorate Facebook's 10th anniversary.