Group Privacy

Luciano Floridi is Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information at the University of Oxford, where he is the Director of Research of the Oxford Internet Institute. Among his recent books, all published by Oxford University Press: The Fourth Revolution - How the infosphere is reshaping human reality (2014), The Ethics of Information (2013), The Philosophy of Information (2011). He is a member of the EU's Ethics Advisory Group on Ethical Dimensions of Data Protection, of Google Advisory Board on "the right to be forgotten", and Chairman of the Ethics Advisory Board of the European Medical Information Framework.

Linnet Taylor is Assistant Professor of Data Ethics, Law and Policy at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT). She was previously a Marie Curie research fellow in the University of Amsterdam's International Development faculty, with the Governance and Inclusive Development group. Her research focuses on the use ofnew types of digital data in research and policymaking around issues of development, urban planning and mobility. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute, and studied a DPhil in International Development at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex. Her doctoral research focused on the adoption of the internet in West Africa. Before her doctoral work she was a researcher at the Rockefeller Foundation where she developed programmes around economic security and human mobility.

Bart van der Sloot specialises in questions regarding Privacy and Big Data. Funded by a Top Talent grant from the Dutch Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), his research at the Institute for Information Law (University of Amsterdam) is focused on finding an alternative for the current privacy paradigm, which is focused on individual rights and personal interests. In the past, Bart van der Sloot has worked for the Netherlands Scientific Councilfor Government Policy (WRR), an independent advisory body for the Dutch government, co-authoring a report on the regulation of Big Data in respect of privacy and security. He currently serves as the general editor of the European Data Protection Law Review and is the coordinator of the Amsterdam Platform for Privacy Research.