The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged many of our traditional democratic civil liberties through the implementation of emergency measures like contact tracing, curfews, restrictions to movement, and more. While governments are responsible for protecting citizens and ensuring their health and safety, this protection often includes the temporary suspension or restriction of other essential liberties for the sake of public health. How do we balance public safety with the integrity of our civil liberties?

Technology shapes the world. The more successful a new technology becomes, the more reliant we will become on it. This has always happened and will continue to happen in the future too. In many ways, the Internet is both the best and worst innovation of our lifetime. How did we get here? Where will we go next?

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Paper: Towards a Normative Evaluation of Personalization (PDF)

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Paper: Reclaiming the Narrative (PDF)

Slides: Reclaiming the Narrative (PDF)

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Paper: Social Media Design, Autonomy and Snudges (PDF)

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Paper: Data Privacy: A Case Study of Mexican Telephone Legislation (PDF)

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Paper: Living in the Era of Personalisation (PDF)

COVID-19 has forced us all, abruptly, to live our lives largely online — from work, finances, education, healthcare, politics, and socializing, hyperconnectivity is now a necessity rather than a choice.

“Privacy is a value so complex, so entangled in competing and contradictory dimensions, so engorged with various and distinct meanings that I sometimes despair whether it can be usefully addressed at all.” (Robert Post, Legal Theorist, 2001).

“Perhaps the most striking thing about the right to privacy, is that nobody seems to have any very clear idea what it is.” (Judith Jarvis Thompson, Philosopher, 1984)