Bio
Janis Wong is a Research Associate in the public policy programme. She has an interdisciplinary
In 2020-21, Janis was a Research Fellow at the Open Data Institute, focusing on data protection and governance in
Research interests
Janis' research focuses on data protection, stewardship, and governance as it related to artificial intelligence, ethics,
Janis uses both quantitative and qualitative methodologies in her research, where her past research includes topics
Achievements and awards
Janis is an active speaker and enjoys communicating artificial intelligence, ethics, and privacy-related topics to both
A selected list of invited talks and public appearances include:
- "St Andrews student's fear after being secretly tracked by Apple AirTags" quote. The Courier, February 2022
- "Apple AirTags - ‘A perfect tool for stalking’'. BBC Radio 5 Live, January 2022
- "Data protection and governance in educational spaces" seminar. University of Winchester, November 2021
- "Neighbour wins privacy row over smart doorbell and cameras". BBC Radio 5 Live, October 2021
- "A Conversation on Web Scraping". DataKind UK, September 2021
- "Whither data portability? Obstacles to the GDPR's newest data subject right". British and Irish Law Education and
- "Virtual Hack: How can we tackle the spread of 'fake news' and build public knowledge and trust in sound science?".
- "Homeschooling and working from home". STV News at Six, January 2021
- "Data Protection as a Commons". Creative Commons Summit 2020
- "Unconscious Bias: Building data ethics into our tech industry". Codeclan and Lloyds Bank, July 2020
- "The right to data portability in practice". Commission Nationale Informatique & Libertés (CNIL), June 2019
- "The right to data portability in practice". British Computer Society, June 2019
- "Exercising the GDPR Right to Data Portability in context". Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), January 2019