On January 15, 2026, the Senate Commerce Committee convened a hearing — Plugged Out: Examining the Impact of Technology on America’s Youth — to examine the impact of technology on kids’ lives…

Meg Leta Jones is a tech policy professor and cartoonist in the Communication, Culture & Technology (CCT) program at Georgetown University where she researches rules and technological change. She’s also a founding faculty member of the Center for Digital Ethics and a faculty affiliate with the Institute for Technology Law & Policy at Georgetown Law Center. Ctrl+Z: The Right to be Forgotten, Meg’s first book, is about the social, legal, and technical issues surrounding digital oblivion. Her second book project, The Character of Consent: The History of Cookies and Future of Technology Policy, tells the transatlantic history of digital consent through the lens of a familiar technical object. Her current research and cartoons revolve around family technology policy and involve a number of collaborative projects with incredible Georgetown colleagues and students.