About Lilian Edwards:

Lilian Edwards is the Professor of Law, Innovation and Society at Newcastle Law School at Newcastle University. Additionally, she is a member of the Advisory Board of the Open Rights Group and the Foundation for Internet Privacy Research. She is much in demand as an academic speaker on issues of Internet law, intellectual property, and artificial intelligence. She has appeared at the BBC Blue Room roundtable on the future of AI, the New Scientist Live on AI, and several programmes on BBC Radio 4, among others. She is a self-proclaimed “GDPR nerd and total geek.”
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About the event:

Facebook, Google, Amazon and other websites, financial services companies and even home utility suppliers (through smart devices) are capable of collating vast amounts of personal data. But do we, the society, know what data they collect and what it is used for? Personal data is a commodity that can be sold and bought and used for marketing purposes, but also to manipulate election outcomes and restrict access to services like healthcare or housing. It has been shown that content customised using this data can be used effectively to influence people’s personal beliefs and choices.

Do you know how your personal data is used? Do you know what control over your personal information you have? Come and find out.

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