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Personal profile
Research interests
I am an empirical and interdisciplinary scholar who specialises in all aspects of Digital Law and Regulation. A core theme in my work is how emerging and disruptive digital environments, practices and technologies, such as social media, machine learning, connected ecosystems and cloud computing, can be effectively regulated.
In recent years, my work has explored the broad range of data privacy law challenges raised by data-driven operations including automated decision-making; profiling; commercial surveillance; facial recognition technology; 'Big Data' analytics; opaque, transborder and multi-actor processing chains; connected ecosystems and responsible and lawful data stewardship. Through empirical analyses of these complex, contigent and mutable problematics within particular sectors like financial services, Ad Tech and social media, I have developed insightful, innovative and original insights into the variable roles of law and other regulatory interventions in safeguarding data privacy rights in specific contexts. Here, I have also shed new light, both from empirical and theoretical perspectives, on the enforcement challenges faced by data privacy regulators in such contexts.
My other areas of work include online harms regulation; digital copyright adjudication and enforcement; presence of plural regulators in digital 'regulatory spaces' and balancing competing rights and interests in online environments (e.g. data protection vs competition).
External positions
PETs Expert Forum Member, Information Commissioner's Office
1 Jan 2022 → …
Member, UK Online Safety Initiative Expert Group
1 Mar 2021 → 1 Apr 2022
Structured keywords and research groupings
- Digital Societies
- LAW Centre for Global Law and Innovation
Keywords
- Digital Law
- Digital Regulation
- Data Protection Law
- Digital Copyright
- Cloud Computing
- social media
- Machine Learning
- Artificial Intelligence
- social network sites
- Privacy Law
- Regulation
- Cyberspace
- Socio-Legal Studies
- Big data analytics
- Ad Tech
- Digital technology
- financial services
- financial law
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Projects
- 2 Active
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REPHRAIN: REsearch centre on Privacy, Harm Reduction and Adversarial INfluence online
Rashid, A., Ramokapane, M., Das Chowdhury, P., Owen, R., Vranaki, A. A. I., Rigby, Y., Schultz-Graham, R. R., Burger, K., Peersman, C., Zhang, M. & Van De Sandt, E. H. A.
1/10/20 → 30/09/23
Project: Research, Parent
Research output
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A Decision-Making Process to Implement the ‘Right to be Forgotten’ in Machine Learning
Hawkins, K. L. C., Alhuwaish, N. Y. M., Belguith, S., Vranaki, A. & Charlesworth, A. J., 2 Jun 2023.Research output: Contribution to conference › Conference Paper
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Regulating Social Network Sites: Data Protection, Copyright and Power
Vranaki, A. A. I., 2022, Edward Elgar Publishing.Research output: Book/Report › Authored book
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Facilitating plausible deniability for cloud providers regarding tenants' activities using trusted execution
O'Keeffe, D., Vranaki, A., Pasquier, T. & Eyers, D., 24 Apr 2020.Research output: Contribution to conference › Conference Paper › peer-review
Open AccessFile1 Citation (Scopus)109 Downloads (Pure)
Activities
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Regulators Pioneer Fund: PETs for Public Good.
Francesca Farmer (Speaker) & Asma A I Vranaki (Speaker)
30 May 2022Activity: Other activity types › Collaboration
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Case study and Guidance on AdTech and Data Protection
Francesca Farmer (Speaker) & Asma A I Vranaki (Speaker)
30 Apr 2022Activity: Other activity types › Collaboration
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Information Commissioner's Office (External organisation)
Asma A I Vranaki (Advisor)
2022 → …Activity: Membership types › Membership of public/government advisory/policy group or panel