Natali Helberger
Institution
University of Amsterdam
Department
Institute for Information Law (IViR)
Position
Professor
City
Amsterdam
Country
Netherlands
Information
Natali Helberger is Distinguished University Professor for Law and Digital Technology, with a special focus on AI, at the University of Amsterdam. She is also a member of the board of directors of the Institute for Information Law (IViR), and the director of the AI, Media & Democracy Lab.
She studied Law at the Freie Universität Berlin and received her doctarate from the University of Amsterdam. Her thesis, Controlling Access to Content: Regulating Conditional Access in Digital Broadcasting (2005), examines the regulation of digital gateways and their implications for information law and policy, competition, freedom of expression and the interests of users. In 2005, she was a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley.
Natali specialises in the regulation of converging information and communication markets. Focus points of her research are the interface between technology and information law, user rights and the changing role of the user in information law and policy. Exploring the interaction between media law, privacy and data protection law, consumer law and communications law is an important driver behind her research.
Among other things, she is a member of the EC High Level Expert Group Connect Advisory Forum, a High Level Expert Group on the Internet of Things as well as the EC Cloud Computing Expert Group, member of the Advisory Board of the Dutch Mediaombudsman, a member of the Communications and Media Scientific Committee of the Florence School of Regulation, member of the program committees of EuroCPR, ITS and theIAMCR Panel of Advisors and reviewers. She is also a member of the editorial committees of the Journal of Information Policy and Mediaforum.
Among her current projects is the project “Profiling and targeting news readers – implications for the democratic role of the digital media, user rights and public information policy” for which she has received anERC Grant. In addition, Natali is leading, together with Prof. Claes de Vreese (ASCoR), the project Personalised Communication. Personalised Communication is a cooperation between IViR and the Amsterdam School for Communication Research (ASCoR), supported by the University of Amsterdam.
Photo: Jeroen Oerlemans
Articles by this author
- ChatGPT and the AI Act
- Transparency and (no) more in the Political Advertising Regulation
- The perils of legally defining disinformation
- Regulation of news recommenders in the Digital Services Act: empowering David against the Very Large Online Goliath
- Four tales of sci-fi and information law
- Platform ad archives: promises and pitfalls
- Political micro-targeting: a Manchurian candidate or just a dark horse?
- Two crates of beer and 40 pizzas: the adoption of innovative political behavioural targeting techniques
- Is political micro-targeting hijacking European democracy?
- The Weeping Angels are back, and they attack our privacy via smart TVs
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