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O’Reilly + Cloudera
Make Data Work
29 April–2 May 2019
London, UK
Sandra Wachter

Sandra Wachter
Assistant Professor and Lawyer, University of Oxford

@SandraWachter5

Sandra Wachter is a lawyer and research fellow (assistant professor) in data ethics, AI, robotics, and internet regulation/cybersecurity at the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford, where she also teaches internet technologies and regulation. Sandra is also a fellow at the Alan Turing Institute in London; a fellow of the World Economic Forum’s Global Futures Council on Values, Ethics, and Innovation; an academic affiliate at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights at Oxford’s Law Faculty; and a member of the Law Committee of the IEEE. Sandra serves as a policy advisor for governments, companies, and NGOs around the world on regulatory and ethical questions concerning emerging technologies. Her work has been featured in the Telegraph, the Financial Times, the Sunday Times, the Economist, Science, the BBC, the Guardian, Le Monde, New Scientist, Die Zeit, Der Spiegel, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Endgadget, and Wired. In 2018, she won the O2RB Excellence in Impact Award and in 2017 the CognitionX AI superhero Award.

Sandra specializes in technology, IP, and data protection law as well as European, international, human rights, and medical law. She’s also interested in the legal and ethical aspects of robotics (e.g. surgical, domestic, and social robots) and autonomous systems (e.g., autonomous and connected cars), including liability, accountability, and privacy issues. Internet policy and regulation and cybersecurity issues are also at the heart of her research, where she addresses areas such as online surveillance and profiling, censorship, intellectual property law, and human rights and identity online. Previous work also looked at (bio)medical law and bioethics in areas such as interventions in the genome and genetic testing under the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine. Sandra studied at the University of Oxford and the University of Vienna and previously worked at the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Austrian Ministry of Health.

Sessions

10:1510:35 Thursday, 2 May 2019
Location: Auditorium
Secondary topics:  Security and Privacy
Sandra Wachter (University of Oxford)
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Big data analytics and AI draw nonintuitive and unverifiable inferences about the behaviors, preferences, and lives of individuals. These inferences draw on diverse and feature-rich data of unpredictable value and create new opportunities for discriminatory, biased, and invasive decision making. Sandra Wachter discusses how this expands potential victims of discrimination and potential harm. Read more.