Panel discussion: Legal issues on facial recognition from an international perspective

Benoît Dupont is a full Professor of Criminology at the Université de Montréal and the Scientific Director of the Smart Cybersecurity Network (SERENE-RISC), which he founded in 2014. He is the holder of the Canada Research Chair in Cybersecurity since 2016. He is also the holder of the research Chair in the Prevention of Cybercrime. Benoît sits as an observer representing the research community on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Cyber Threat Exchange (CCTX) and on the researchers’ Council of the New Digital Research Infrastructure Organization (NDRIO). He is part of the inaugural cohort of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada.

Céline Castets-Renard, full Law professor at the University of Ottawa and Chair holder of the Law, Accountable and Social Trust in AI in a global context. She’s been a professor at Université Toulouse Capitole in France since 2012, where she had previously been a lecturer in private law from 2002 to 2012. In 2015, she was nominated junior member od the prestigious University Institute of France. She wrote a reference textbook in 2009, republished in 2012 on ” Law of the internet: French and European law “. Her research work generally focuses on digital law and it regulation in various areas of private law ranging from civil liability to intellectual property, personal data protection, e-commerce, ethical issues related to the regulation of self-driving cars and cybersecurity.

Carly Kind is the Director of the Ada Lovelace Institute, an independent research institute and deliberative body a remit to ensure data and AI work for people and society. A human rights lawyer and leading authority on the intersection of technology policy and human rights, Carly has advised industry, government and non-profit organisations on digital rights, privacy and data protection, and corporate accountability in the technology sphere. She has worked with the European Commission, the Council of Europe, numerous UN bodies and a range of civil society organisations. She was formerly Legal Director of Privacy International, an NGO dedicated to promoting data rights and governance.

Caroline Lequesne Roth is assistant Professor of Public Law at the University Côte d’Azur, in Nice. In 2018, she co-founded the program Deep Law for Technologies, which aims to bring together lawyers, data scientists and computer scientists around the challenges of deep technologies. Director of the Fablex DL4T (Artificial Intelligence Law Clinic) from 2018 to 2020, she is now in charge of the Master degree in Algorithmic Law and Data Governance. Her work focuses on the normative and conceptual challenges of the digitalization of public services in the age of artificial intelligence and big data. She is the author of various contributions related to the surveillance technologies and the relationship between science and power.

Rashida Richardson is a Visiting Scholar at Rutgers Law School and Rutgers Institute for Information Policy and Law, where she specializes in race, emerging technologies and the law, and she is a Senior Fellow in the Digital Innovation and Democracy Initiative at the German Marshall Fund. Rashida researches the social and civil rights implications of data driven technologies, including artificial intelligence, and develops policy interventions and regulatory strategies regarding data driven technologies, government surveillance, racial discrimination, and the technology sector. Rashida has previously worked on a range of civil rights issues as the Director of Policy Research at New York University’s AI Now Institute, Legislative Counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union of New York (NYCLU), and staff attorney at the Center for HIV Law and Policy. Rashida currently serves on the Board of Trustees of Wesleyan University, the Advisory Board of the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, the Board of Directors of the College & Community Fellowship, Advisory Board for Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting, Board of Directors for Data for Black Lives, Advisory Board for the Electronic Privacy Information Center, and she is an affiliate and Advisory Board member of the Center for Critical Race + Digital Studies. She received her BA with honors in the College of Social Studies at Wesleyan University and her JD from Northeastern University School of Law.