Monika Zalnieriute

About/Bio

Monika Zalnieriute is a Senior Lecturer and Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA) Fellow at the Faculty of Law and Justice, UNSW Sydney. Monika is also an Investigator at Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence ‘Automated Decision-Making and Society’ and a Research Lead, ‘AI and Law’ at Allens Hub for Technology, Law & Innovation, UNSW Sydney.

Recently Published

A Dangerous Convergence: The Inevitability of Mass Surveillance in European Jurisprudence

Recent Grand Chamber judgments in Big Brother Watch and Others v. United Kingdom and Centrum för Rättvisa v. Sweden held that some aspects of the UK’s and Sweden’s domestic surveillance regimes violated Articles 8 and 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights (“ECHR”). Despite the findings of violation…

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To Forget, But Not Forgive: Why the CJEU’s Latest Ruling on Google and the ‘Right to Be Forgotten’ is Not at All a Win for US Tech Giants

  Google has recently triumphed in the fight against a worldwide application of the European "right to be forgotten" following the European Court of Justice’s ruling that Google does not have to take down search results revealing sensitive personal information of EU citizens worldwide, rejecting demands by the French Data Protection Authority. The long anticipated judgment by Europe’s…

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