Annette Mills

Annette Marie Mills is a Jamaican–New Zealand academic, and is Professor of Information Systems in the business school at the University of Canterbury, specialising in the impacts of new technologies, especially relating to privacy.

Academic career

Mills completed her undergraduate training at the University of Technology and the University of the West Indies. Mills completed a PhD titled Investigating the determinants of user sophistication: a perspective from social cognitive theory at the University of Waikato in 1996.

Mills is interested in how people and societies adapt to new and emerging technologies, and the positive and negative impacts of those technologies, including privacy concerns. She covers topics such as pervasive data collection, digital surveillance, automated decision-making, wearable technologies, and biometric data. She has also examined how the increase in home-working has affected enterprise security.

Mills is on the committee of the Privacy Foundation New Zealand, and convenes the working group on children's privacy. Mills is an editor for several journals, including and IT & People, the Journal of Global Information Management, and the Australian Journal of Information Systems. In 1993 she was awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship to New Zealand.

Selected works