--- title: Janet Vertesi | TIME description: Janet Vertesi is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Princeton University, where she is a Faculty Fellow at the Center for Information Technology Policy. canonical: https://time.com/author/janet-vertesi/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/janet-vertesi/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Janet Vertesi ## Janet Vertesi _Janet Vertesi is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Princeton University, where she is a Faculty Fellow at the Center for Information Technology Policy._ ## Janet Vertesi *  May 4, 2015 ### [The Problem With Police Body Cameras](https://time.com/3843157/the-problem-with-police-body-cameras/) In court, video evidence never speaks for itself [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Apr 24, 2015 ### [What Sci-Fi Got Wrong About the Apple Watch: Vanity](https://time.com/3831580/sci-fi-apple-watch-vanity/) What we buy tells others who we are [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Apr 20, 2015 ### [Stop Counting on Individuals To Solve California's Water Crisis](https://time.com/3825824/stop-counting-on-individuals-to-solve-californias-water-crisis/) "Even if 50,000 people shorten their showers, this is a drop in the proverbial bucket" [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Sep 2, 2014 ### [Celebrity Nude Photo Hack Exposes Flaw In How We Think About Privacy and the Cloud](https://time.com/3256596/celebrity-nude-photo-hack-cloud-privacy/) We assume our data stored in the cloud is personal, but in reality it is interpersonal [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Jul 2, 2014 ### [The Real Reason You Should Be Worried About That Facebook Experiment](https://time.com/2950699/facebook-experiment-social-science-funding/) The private sector and tech companies are increasingly funding what was once independent social scie... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  May 1, 2014 ### [My Experiment Opting Out of Big Data Made Me Look Like a Criminal](https://time.com/83200/privacy-internet-big-data-opt-out/) Here's what happened when I tried to hide my pregnancy from the Internet and marketing companies [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/janet-vertesi/","name":"Janet Vertesi"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/janet-vertesi/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/janet-vertesi/"},"name":"Janet Vertesi","jobTitle":null,"description":"Janet Vertesi is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Princeton University, where she is a Faculty Fellow at the Center for Information Technology Policy.","url":"https://time.com/author/janet-vertesi/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```