InfoLead: Online Seminar Series (Session 3)
This discussion will be a collective trouble-shooting session.
It is an opportunity for InfoLead participants to share challenges they have faced or are currently facing in relation to a wide range of topics, including online safety, or platform guidelines, and to receive guidance from a panel of experts.
Joining us on the panel, and helping participants trouble-shoot, will be online safety expert Kieron Cardall, and Niklas Eder, former policy expert at Meta's oversight board.
If you are a member of InfoLead, and would like to submit your question, case study, or challenge that you've encountered in your line of work for expert advice, please do so via the following google form.
About the speakers
Kieron Caldall is a technology policy professional with deep experience in regulation and compliance. He currently provides consultation to investors and startups on Online Safety policy and technologies, he also works on data protection, privacy, and sovereignty at a major social media platform.
Kieron served as the UK government’s embedded technology expert on the Online Safety Act, helping to design and launch a new regulatory regime. He later became the UK data protection regulator’s lead expert on encryption, gaining firsthand experience in independent supervision and enforcement.
Niklas Eder (LL.M., Maître en Droit) is the Co-Founder and COO of User Rights, the first out-of-court dispute settlement body under the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) that focuses on social media. He is also the founder of the Article 21 Academic Advisory Board and serves as its Director of Administration. In addition, he is a Visiting Lecturer and Fellow at King’s College London, where he co-teaches the postgraduate course Technology, Democracy and Society.
Previously, Niklas worked at the Oversight Board, concentrating on automated content moderation from the perspective of international human rights. He holds a PhD in European constitutional law and has worked at the intersection of fundamental rights and technology in various roles and fellowships at Oxford University, Yale University, Columbia University, Humboldt University, and the Free University of Berlin. He publishes regularly as both an academic and journalist. His publications include "Beyond Automation" (Stanford Technology Law Review) and "Making Systemic Risk Assessments Work" (German Law Journal).