Frederike Kaltheuner is a policy officer with Privacy International in London where she develops positions on the privacy and security challenges of connected spaces. Privacy International is a global civil liberties organisation that litigates to ensure that surveillance is consistent with the rule of law and advocates for strong regional, national and international laws that protect privacy.

Frederike regularly speaks at tech, policy and art conferences and comments on emerging technologies in the British and international press. In 2016, she was a Transatlantic Digital Fellow on cybersecurity and platform regulation with the Global Public Policy Institute in Berlin and New America Foundation in D.C. Previously, she worked with the Centre for Internet and Human Rights, as a technology reporter and in the R&D department of an online newspaper.

Frederike holds an MSc in Internet Science the University of Oxford and a BA in Philosophy and Politics from Maastricht University, was a researcher at the University of Amsterdam and a visiting scholar at Bogazici University Istanbul.

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