TEAM
At the heart of PersonalData.IO is a multi-disciplinary community of expertise at the service of the company. Our team has comprehensive sociological, educational, legal and technical skills of digital media that we put at the service of a wide audience. We join forces to build partnerships based on cooperation, not competition, between civil society and the private sector.
Jessica Pidoux
Jessica Pidoux is interdisciplinary sociologist and PhD in Digital Humanities at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Her thesis (in free access and in brief) focuses on the quantitative and qualitative analysis of graphical interfaces, development practices and use of dating applications. She also studies algorithmic matching systems (or matching). Her research shows more broadly the sociopolitical issues that guide the perception and action of users in the reputation (or attention) economy.
Although Jessica’s research focuses on dating apps, her thinking touches more broadlyon socialization and digital marketing phenomena such as social networks and other platforms with artificial intelligence techniques for recommendation systems such as Uber, Airbnb, Amazon.
Jean-Henry Morin
His research interests include digital rights management and policies, information systems security, particularly in socially responsible and sustainable approaches, compliance and governance of information risks.
Paul-Olivier Dehaye
Paul-Olivier Dehaye has been investigating Cambridge Analytica and Facebook scandal since December 2015, following a first report in The Guardian newspaper. Her hands-on experience in data protection and understanding of jurisdictional issues have proved useful in working with dozens of journalists around the world.
jean-christophe schwaab
A staunch advocate of transparency in politics, he is one of the few elected officials to have published a list of his parliamentary allowances. In 2012, he defended the interests of bank employees whose names had been handed over to the US courts during the tax dispute between Switzerland and Washington.
Sofia Kypraiou
Sofia Kypraiou is a data scientist specialising in ethics and human rights. She studied data science at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, and computer science at the University of Athens.
For PersonalData.iO, she contributes to the research and design of data governance models, and works on the analysis of the Geneva collective of Uber drivers. His previous work includes the AI & Equality, which merges AI and human rights, through a methodology of critical analysis. Sofia has been able to give multiple workshops at different universities and art festivals.
David Décamps
As an artist, he began photography in 2013. Self-taught, and a fan of street photography, he stands out for his profoundly human and resolutely optimistic vision of art. With benevolence and finesse, his works reveal the forgotten details of life, thus giving a taste for the wonder sometimes lost in the midst of a daily life that leaves little room for attention.
Also an illustrator, Deydai is the nickname of the boy who lives in a corner of his brain. Deydai likes to illustrate his points. Often in black and white, sometimes tinged with colour, his illustrations mix the popular expression "a drawing is worth a thousand words".
Nawale LAMRINI
Having developed legal expertise in project set-up and research valorization, she has been able to develop a certain mastery of the application of legal instruments related to data protection, intellectual property, Open Science & Open Data as well as research ethics.
This has led him to work closely with several Research Ethics Review Boards, to also be a member of the Legal and Financial NCP of the European Commission (H2020) and the SupDPO, with whom she has been able to conduct conferences and trainings on these themes, such as with the RFIEA.