Salomé Viljoen is an assistant professor of law at the University of Michigan Law School, where she teaches contracts, privacy, commercial surveillance, and data governance. A leading scholar of the law and political economy of data and artificial intelligence, her work examines platform power, how information law structures inequality, and the legal status of data generated by and about people. Her recent work develops a theory of affirmative, socially beneficial uses of social data and interrogates the conditions under which datafication of social life is morally or legally wrongful. Viljoen’s academic writing has appeared in Yale Law Journal, Columbia Law Review, and Big Data & Society. Viljoen has also written for Nature, The Guardian, Logic Magazine, and Phenomenal World.