K. Krasnow Waterman is an American technology executive and lawyer, CEO of LawTechIntersect, LLC, and a 🏷️#woman-in-tech whose career spans three professions: managing large-scale technology at JPMorgan and Citigroup, twelve years practicing law, and senior government service. At the request of the White House she became the inception CIO of the first post-9/11 data-analytics task force — a joint operation of 23 federal agencies — and later served as the interim chief operations executive for the reorganization of the FBI's intelligence infrastructure.
Her research work as a visiting fellow at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory centers on making privacy law computable: her team encoded the first layer of the U.S. Privacy Act — 135 sub-rules whose combinatorial complexity runs to hundreds of thousands of cases — to demonstrate that nuanced legal policy can be represented and enforced in data systems rather than reduced to what she calls a "zero-one bit." On "📝While We Were Looking," the second episode of 📝Everything They Know, she traces that thread from reading a prescient 1984 article on data analytics through mosaic theory to the modern reality that terms-of-service documents run past 100 pages while the permissions we grant make repricing-by-surveillance technically trivial.
K entered the library through her Everything They Know interview on my friend 📝Ari Andersen's podcast — the person who was explaining privacy to the NSA while the rest of us were accepting terms of service unread.