Julia Keserű

Senior Fellow, Tech Policy

2023-2025

Hungary

Julia Keserű is an activist and writer working at the intersection of technology and justice. Over the past 15 years she has advised numerous organizations on their data and technology strategies, written extensively about the challenges and opportunities of data-driven systems, and led diverse global teams to create a healthier and safer online world. Julia is the Executive Director of The Engine Room, a globally distributed team that helps social justice activists use data in strategic, responsible, and safe ways.

Fellowship Project

Julia’s fellowship will explore the role that bodily integrity could play in tech industry regulation. This will be done through mixed-method research into how the inviolability of the physical body has become a key concept in other, more heavily regulated fields such as health care, and draw potential parallels for the tech policy agenda. This will most notably focus on pending AI regulation and data protection regimes in the EU and the U.S. Her project will culminate in recommendations to increase the protection of integrity and dignity.