Steven Wingreen is an Associate Professor of Information Systems and Decision Sciences at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. Prior to his academic career, he was a manager of networks and telecommunications whose responsibilities included network security. He has taught IT security and risk management over the span of his 23-year teaching career at multiple universities, both as a component of more comprehensive courses and as its own course. His current research agenda on the topic of emerging technologies in 21st century commerce includes a project with multiple papers about information privacy, trust, and ethical concerns in the context of advanced emerging technologies.