Brittan Heller
Brittan Heller is a lawyer and scholar of human rights and immersive technology. She teaches at Stanford Law School and is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council. She coined the term "biometric psychography."
Brittan Heller works at the intersection of law, human rights and immersive technology. She is a Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in Law at Stanford Law School, lectures in Stanford's International Relations Program, and is a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab. Her paper "Watching Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" coined the term "biometric psychography" for the privacy risks of data gathered by XR devices.
She was the inaugural AI and Technology Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School's Carr Center for Human Rights, founded ADL's Center for Technology and Society, and was counsel for corporate social responsibility at Foley Hoag. Earlier, as a U.S. Department of Justice attorney, she prosecuted genocide, war crimes and computer crimes. She has served on the World Economic Forum's metaverse governance steering committee. A Luce Scholar, she holds degrees from Stanford and Yale Law School.