Assistant Professor in Law and Technology
Interests
I'm generally interested in critical, interdisciplinary work on questions of power, political economy, and the law around internet platforms and informational capitalism, technological supply chains and infrastructures, and AI and automated decision-making. I am particularly interested in law’s role in informational capitalism, how legal frameworks (such as data protection) intersect with complex technological systems and with tech industry business models, and how law can better address these questions to more effectively regulate digital technologies in future.
Research centres and interest groups
CV / Biography
I am Assistant Professor in Law and Technology in the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge, where I'm a member of the Centre for Intellectual Properly and Information Law. I'm also a researcher in the Department of Computer Science and Technology at Cambridge, a member of the Microsoft Cloud Computing Research Centre, and a Research Affiliate of the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy. Before joining the Law Faculty, I was a Senior Research Associate in the Computer Science Department at Cambridge as part of the Compliant & Accountable Systems research group. I hold a PhD in Law and an LLM in Law and Governance from Queen’s University, Belfast. For my PhD, I studied the use of machine learning in commercial and state internet surveillance, and the impact of these related forms of surveillance on people and society.
For the 2023-24 academic year, I am convening the LLM paper 'Law, Technology & Society', and will also lecture on the LLM paper 'Personal Information Law' as well as the undergraduate constitutional law paper.
Publications
Articles
"Understanding accountability in algorithmic supply chains" 2023 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT '23)
Citation:
2023 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT '23)
DOI:
10.1145/3593013.3594073
Published: Jun 2023
"Out of Context: Algorithmic Fairness in “Artificial Intelligence as a Service”" 2023 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (ACM CHI '23)
Citation:
2023 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (ACM CHI '23)
DOI:
10.1145/3544548.3581463
Published: Apr 2023
"Disclosure by Design: Document engineering for meaningful data disclosures" 2022 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT '22)
Citation:
2022 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT '22)
DOI:
10.1145/3531146.3533133
Published: Jun 2022
"From Transparency to Accountability of Intelligent Systems – moving beyond aspirations" (2022) Data and Policy 4
Citation:
(2022) Data and Policy 4
DOI:
10.1017/dap.2021.37
Published: Feb 2022
"Algorithmic Censorship by Social Platforms: Power and Resistance" (2021) Philosophy & Technology 34
Citation:
(2021) Philosophy & Technology 34
DOI:
10.1007/s13347-020-00429-0
Published: Sep 2021
"Artificial Intelligence as a Service: Legal Responsibilities, Liabilities, and Policy Challenges" (2021) Computer Law & Security Review 42
Citation:
(2021) Computer Law & Security Review 42
DOI:
10.1016/j.clsr.2021.105573
Published: May 2021
"Data Protection and Tech Startups: The Need for Attention, Support, and Scrutiny" (2021) Policy & Internet
Citation:
(2021) Policy & Internet
DOI:
10.1002/poi3.255
Published: May 2021
"Principles for the Socially Responsible Use of Conservation Monitoring Technology and Data" (2021) Conservation Science and Practice
Citation:
(2021) Conservation Science and Practice
DOI:
10.1111/csp2.374
Published: Mar 2021
"Reviewable Automated Decision-Making: A Framework for Accountable Algorithmic Systems" 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT '21)
Citation:
2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT '21)
DOI:
10.1145/3442188.3445921
Published: Mar 2021
"Differential Tweetment: Mitigating Racial Dialect Bias in Harmful Tweet Detection" 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT '21)
Citation:
2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT '21)
DOI:
10.1145/3442188.3445875
Published: Mar 2021
"Enclaves in the Clouds: Legal Considerations and Broader Implications" (2021) ACM Queue 18(6)
Citation:
(2021) ACM Queue 18(6)
DOI:
10.1145/3442632.3448126
Published: Jan 2021
"Personal information management systems: a user-centric privacy utopia?" (2020) Internet Policy Review 9(4)
Citation:
(2020) Internet Policy Review 9(4)
DOI:
10.14763/2020.4.1536
Published: Dec 2020
"Decentralised Data Processing: Personal Data Stores and the GDPR" (2020) International Data Privacy Law 10(4)
Citation:
(2020) International Data Privacy Law 10(4)
DOI:
10.1093/idpl/ipaa016
Published: Nov 2020
"Reviewable Automated Decision-Making" (2020) Computer Law & Security Review
Citation:
(2020) Computer Law & Security Review
DOI:
10.1016/j.clsr.2020.105475
Published: Nov 2020
"Centring the Rule of Law in the Digital State" (2020) IEEE Computer 53
Citation:
(2020) IEEE Computer 53
DOI:
10.1109/MC.2020.3006623
Published: Oct 2020
"What Lies Beneath: Transparency in Online Services Supply Chains" (2020) Journal of Cyber Policy
Citation:
(2020) Journal of Cyber Policy
DOI:
10.1080/23738871.2020.1745860
Published: Apr 2020
"Monitoring Misuse for Accountable ‘Artificial Intelligence as a Service'" 2020 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES '20)
Citation:
2020 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES '20)
DOI:
10.1145/3375627.3375873
Published: Feb 2020
"Consequences for Manufacturing Transparency? Facebook, Twitter and the German Network Enforcement Act" 2020 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAT* '20)
Citation:
2020 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAT* '20)
DOI:
10.1145/3351095.3372856
Published: Jan 2020
"Regulating Recommending: Motivations, Considerations, and Principles" (2019) European Journal of Law & Technology
Citation:
(2019) European Journal of Law & Technology
Published: Dec 2019
"The Security Implications of Data Subject Rights" (2019) IEEE Security & Privacy 17(6)
Citation:
(2019) IEEE Security & Privacy 17(6)
DOI:
10.1109/MSEC.2019.2914614
Published: Dec 2019
"Administrative Law and the Machines of Government: Judicial Review of Automated Public-Sector Decision-Making" (2019) Legal Studies 39
Citation:
(2019) Legal Studies 39
DOI:
10.1017/lst.2019.9
Published: Jul 2019
"Decision Provenance: Harnessing data flow for accountable systems" (2019) IEEE Access 7
Citation:
(2019) IEEE Access 7
DOI:
10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2887201
Published: Dec 2018
"Reclaiming Data: Overcoming App Identification Barriers for Exercising Data Protection Rights" Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Legal and Technical Issues in Cloud and Pervasive Computing (IoT) [CLaw-18], UbiComp/ISWC’18 Adjunct
Citation:
Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Legal and Technical Issues in Cloud and Pervasive Computing (IoT) [CLaw-18], UbiComp/ISWC’18 Adjunct
DOI:
10.1145/3267305.3274153
Published: Oct 2018
"Accountability in the IoT: Systems, Law, and Ways Forward" (2018) IEEE Computer 51(7)
Citation:
(2018) IEEE Computer 51(7)
DOI:
10.1109/MC.2018.3011052
Published: Jul 2018
"Casting the Dragnet: Communications Data Retention Under the Investigatory Powers Act" (2018) Public Law
Book Chapters
"Defining the scope of AI ADM system risk assessment" (with Michelle Seng Ah Lee, Jennifer Cobbe, Heleen Janssen, and Jatinder Singh ) in Eleni Kosta, Ronald Leenes, and Irene Kamara (ed(s)), Research Handbook on EU Data Protection Law (Elgar, 2022)
Publisher:
Elgar
Published Apr 2022
"Towards an accountable Internet of Things: A call for ‘reviewability’" (with Chris Norval and Jatinder Singh) in Andrew Crabtree, Richard Mortier, and Hamed Haddadi (ed(s)), Privacy by Design for the Internet of Things: Building Accountability and Security (Institute of Engineering and Technology, 2021)
Publisher:
Institute of Engineering and Technology
Published Oct 2021
"Legal Singularity and the Reflexivity of Law" in Simon Deakin and Christopher Markou (ed(s)), Is Law Computable? Critical Perspectives on Law & Artificial Intelligence (Hart, 2020)
"Understanding the Smart City: Framing the challenges for law and good governance" (with John Morison) in Emmanuel Slautsky (ed(s)), The Conclusions of the Chaire Mutations de l'Action Publique et du Droit Public, Sciences Po , 2019)
Published Jul 2019
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