Cara Bloom

Cara Bloom is currently a Privacy Engineer at Netflix, having joined in August 2023. Prior to this role, Cara served as a Senior Privacy & Cybersecurity Engineer at MITRE from February 2018 to August 2023, leading research initiatives and providing guidance to federal agencies and private industry. Experience also includes a position as a Staff Researcher at the CyLab Security & Privacy Institute, where research focused on public data collection limits for robot fleets and vulnerabilities in facial recognition. Cara's earlier roles include an internship at the Federal Trade Commission, where investigations addressed unfair business practices in technology, and research assistance at the University of Michigan, contributing to behavioral economics experiments. Educational credentials consist of a Master’s Degree in Information Security Policy and Management from Carnegie Mellon University and a Bachelor's Degree in Information Science from the University of Michigan.