Karlin Lillington

Karlin Lillington
Lillington in 2015
Born	1959 (age 64–65) Canada
Occupation	Journalist, academic
Language	English
Citizenship	Ireland, US, Canada
Alma mater	University College Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, UC Santa Barbara
Genre	Non-fiction
Subject	Technology and its interaction with business, society and culture; privacy; the poetry of Seamus Heaney
Years active	1980–present
Notable awards	Outstanding Achievement at University College Dublin Smurfit School Business Journalist Awards
Spouse	Chris Horn
Website
indigo.ie/~karlin/kjhome.htm

Karlin J. Lillington is an Irish technology and business journalist, notable for her work with The Irish Times, The Guardian, Wired, Salon.com and other newspapers, magazines and online publishers. Born in Canada and growing up in California, she holds a PhD in Anglo-Irish Literature from Trinity College Dublin. Her work also formed a basis for a judicial appeal which voided the European Union's Data Retention Directive.^[1] She has been a member of the board of Ireland's public service broadcaster, Raidió Teilifís Éireann, and is a long-serving member of the advisory board of Dublin's Science Gallery.