Justin regularly provides expert commentary to TV, radio, print, and online media worldwide.
Justin has been interviewed on BBC, CNBC, CNN, Deutsche Welle, Marketplace, NPR, PBS NewsHour, Public Radio International, SHOWTIME’s “VICE,” and many other national and international programs. He has consulted for HBO and other programs and been quoted hundreds of times in publications ranging from The Economist to The New York Times to Rolling Stone. He is featured in the documentary “The Click Trap.”
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PBS NewsHour
Justin appears on a PBS NewsHour feature to explain just how many mental health apps can sell users’ data—and the serious dangers.
Vox
Justin breaks down in a Vox explainer—viewed 1.5M+ times—the pros and cons of trying to ban TikTok, and what to do.
HBO Research Feature
Justin worked with HBO’s “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” on its data broker episode. His writing and research on data brokers was also shown and quoted on-air.
NPR’s Planet Money
Justin walks NPR Planet Money listeners through data breaches of concert tickets, how easy it is to buy data on elderly Americans, and why our privacy laws are such a disaster.
Post Reports
Justin talks to The Washington Post’s Post Reports podcast about his work on a Post investigation into how malicious individuals can exploit commercial phone location data to follow, target, and even out other people.
Global Print and Online Media
“If our research team, subject to university research ethics and privacy processes, could do this in an academic study, a foreign adversary could get data in a heartbeat to profile, blackmail, or target military personnel,” Sherman told CNN."
— Researchers find sensitive personal data of US military personnel is for sale online, CNN"If you're one of the United States' foreign adversaries, you have advanced cyber capabilities, but you see all this U.S. data out there on the commercial market, you'd think: 'why hack when I can buy?'"
— Foreign enemies have a shockingly simple way to track US troops overseas, lawmakers warn, Fox News“When we talk about U.S.-China tech competition, when we talk about espionage and the capture of data, submarine cables are involved in every aspect of those rising geopolitical tensions,” Sherman said.
— US and China wage war beneath the waves - over internet cables, Reuters“It seems to be getting worse in terms of the economic impact,” said Justin Sherman, chief executive of Global Cyber Strategies, a research and advisory firm. “This is definitely something where the threat is top of mind.”
— Theft of Trade Secrets Is on the Rise—and AI Is Making It Worse, The Wall Street Journal