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Dr. Timothy Libert, Founder & CEO

Tim built webXray in 2012 as an academic research tool, then spent the next decade proving what it could do. He conducted the first million-site study of third-party tracking on the web, published the first peer-reviewed research on pixel tracking on medical websites - work that opened the door to hundreds of millions of dollars in settlements - and was the first to systematically compare what privacy policies say to what the code on a website actually does. That research was cited in Supreme Court briefs, featured on Good Morning America and All Things Considered, and covered by the New York Times, the BBC, the Financial Times, Wired, and dozens of other outlets. Over 900 peer-reviewed studies now cite his work.

His academic path ran through a PhD at the University of Pennsylvania, a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Oxford, fellowships at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute and Central European University, and a faculty appointment at Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science, where he taught in the Privacy Engineering program and conducted research at CyLab. He then joined Google as a Staff Privacy Engineer, where he wrote the company's internal cookie and web storage policy, built compliance architectures at Google scale, and led an audit of every Google-owned cookie - the largest enterprise cookie audit ever conducted.

In 2023 he left Google to found webXray LLC, commercializing a decade of academic research and two years of Big Tech operations into a platform built for litigation, compliance, and enforcement. There is no one else in the industry who has published the foundational research, built the technology, written the compliance policy at the world's largest internet company, and then turned around to offer that expertise commercially. When courts, regulators, and Fortune 500 privacy teams need the final word on what a website is actually doing, they call Tim.