About

Hi! My name is Lin (she/her). I am a PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy (MPI-SP) where I am supervised by Asia Biega in the Responsible Computing Group.

My research is investigating how we can replace notice and consent (i.e., consent notices) and move towards sustainable, responsible, and human-centred data collection. I study this in a few ways:
1) improving pre-existing consent and data collection systems (e.g., GDPR),
2) envisioning more responsible ways of collecting data in new AI systems where notice and consent does not work, and
3) studying the broader decay of platforms, and how this is leaving us with fewer (good) privacy choices.

I collaborate with researchers across computer science, tech policy, and privacy law for broader societal and regulatory impact. I have presented my work, and have engaged with privacy and AI ethics stakeholders across Europe and North America such as the Future of Privacy Forum, French Data Protection Authority, UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity, and NOYB. My work has also won the Council of Europe's 2024 Rodotà Award for an original and innovative contribution to data protection, and has been featured in an AI Ethics Brief from the Montreal Institute of AI Ethics.