Dr Damian Clifford
Areas of expertise
- Law Not Elsewhere Classified 180199
- Law Not Elsewhere Classified 180199
Biography
Damian Clifford a postdoctoral research fellow at the Australian National University, College of Law and an associate researcher at Information Law and Policy Centre at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (University of London). His research focuses predominantly on data protection, privacy and the regulation of technology. He has previously been a visiting lecturer at the Dickson Poon School of Law, Kings College London (2018-2019), a sessional lecturer and honorary fellow at the Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne and a sessional lecturer at Swinburne University of Technology. Damian completed his PhD at the KU Leuven Centre for IT & IP Law (CiTiP) where he was a FWO Aspirant Fellow funded by Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek – Vlaanderen (FWO) from October 2015 to October 2019. Prior to his FWO fellowship, Damian worked on European Commission funded (FP7 and Horizon 2020) projects in the fields of inter alia Critical Infrastructure Protection, Public Sector Information re-use and Cloud Computing at CiTiP. During this period he split his time between institutions by also working for the University of Antwerp. Damian has published in various international journals and has presented at several international conferences with his work cited by Advocate General Maciej Szpunar in his opinion in the Planet 49 Case (Court of Justice of the European Union, Case C-673/17).
Publications
- Clifford, D, Richardson, M & Witzleb, N 2022, 'Artificial intelligence and sensitive inferences: new challenges for data protection laws', in Mark Findlay, Jolyon Ford, and Josephine Seah (ed.), Regulatory Insights on Artificial Intelligence : Research for Policy, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, pp. 19-45.
- Kasirzadeh, A & Clifford, D 2021, 'Fairness and Data Protection Impact Assessments', AIES '21: AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York, NY, United States, pp. 146-153.
- Verdoodt, V, Fordyce, R, Archbold, L et al. 2021, 'Esports and the Platforming of Child’s Play During Covid-19', The International Journal of Children’s Rights, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 496-520.
- Archbold, L, Verdoodt, V, Gordon, E et al. 2021, 'Children’s Privacy in Lockdown: Intersections between Privacy, Participation and Protection Rights in a Pandemic', LAW, TECHNOLOGY AND HUMANS, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 18-34.
- Archbold, L, Clifford, D, Paterson, M et al. 2021, 'Adtech and children’s data rights', University of New South Wales Law Journal, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 857-877.
- Clifford, D & Paterson, J 2020, 'Consumer Privacy and Consent: Reform in the Light of Contract and Consumer Protection Law', Australian Law Journal, vol. 94, no. 10, pp. 741-751.
- Clifford, D, Graef, I & Valcke, P 2019, 'Pre-Formulated Declarations of Data Subject Consent - Citizen-Consumer Empowerment and the Alignment of Data, Consumer and Competition Law Protections', German Law Journal, vol. 20, no. 5, pp. 679-721.
- Ausloos, J & Clifford, D 2018, 'Data Protection and the Role of Fairness', Yearbook of European Law, vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 130ïÿý187.
- Graef, I, Valcke, P & Clifford, D 2018, 'Fairness and Enforcement: Bridging Competition, Data Protection and Consumer', International Data Privacy Law, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 200-223.
- Schroers, J & Clifford, D 2017, 'Legal Implications of Information Sharing', in Florian Skopik (ed.), Collaborative Cyber Threat Intelligence: Detecting and Responding to Advanced Cyber Attacks at the National Level, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton, pp. 277-312.
- Clifford, D & Van Der Sype, Y 2016, 'Online dispute resolution: Settling data protection disputes in a digital world of customers', Computer Law and Security Review [DUPLICATE], vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 272-285.
Projects and Grants
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- Socially Responsible Insurance in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (Secondary Investigator)
- Review of Privacy Laws in Tasmania (Secondary Investigator)