background & projects

I am a lawyer specialised in European data protection and cybersecurity law, with a particular interest for intelligence powers legal frameworks, private and human rights, as well a competition law.

As part of my education I took a one year in 2015 to practice digital rights protection. At the time I was in Paris, where the Charlie Hebdo attacks led the government to push for new unprecedented powers. I joined a strategic litigation initiative, the Exégètes, to analyze the French intelligence powers law from the perspective of European Union (EU) and Council of Europe case law. My involvement with the Exégètes spanned over three years and led us to landmark successes before the French Constitutional Council, the French top administrative court and the EU’s top court. Following this order, these victories ranged from closing a wireless communications surveillance loophole, getting France to abide to EU law on national security rules imposed to businesses and obtain that all EU countries have an obligation to inform people if they have been subject to secret surveillance.

Originally from France, I have lived and studied in France, Norway, Egypt, Morocco and the UK. In 2022 I graduated from the Oxford Internet Institute, after specialising in Internet related regulation and policy making.

At the moment I am based in the EU, often traveling between France, the UK and Germany.

What am I up to now?

I am sharing my worked time between data protection and new technologies litigation, data protection risk management, compliance and policy writing. More specifically, I am primarily doing so in light of challenges in the humanitarian sector, the use of artificial intelligence (AI), the use of biometrics and data protection law requirements.

EVENTS I PARTICIPATED TO

Other topics

• Internet Freedom: information communication, accessibility and archiving, February 2023, Oxford Internet Institute

HOW TO REACH ME

Happy to collaborate with projects and/or advise. Drop me a line at < helloworld (at) lori . is>!

Writings

Master thesis at the Oxford Internet Institute: Outsourced National Security: Policy Trends, Freedoms Encroachment and Accountability in the European Union, 2021

Master thesis, 5th year law school: Effective Remedy in the Context of Hacking by Intelligence Services, 2017

Paper on regulating monopolistic online media: the case of interoperability, 2020

Current projects

• Data Protection Officer with Oxfam International. Practicing data protection law compliance in the humanitarian sector and supporting fundraising departments;
• Founder of Data Rights. An NGO specialised in digital rights litigation to tackle abusive public and private intelligence practices and protecting fragile communities or ecosystems. Data Rights ambition to develop its activities to include global regulatory improvements and promote digital empowerment;
• Co-founder of the University of Oxford’s Responsible Tech alumni network. To nurture a space of like minded people towards helping the digital and ecological transitions of our societies.