Working for the ICO

Summer 2022 ground me into a fine paste and spread me thinly over some dry, tasteless psychological crackers, meaning I forgot to mention I started a new job. I’m now Principal Technology Adviser at the ICO, the UK’s privacy regulator, specialising in product design. The plan is to help the UK design community do better on privacy. Some promising stuff in the pipeline: watch this space.

It’s a part-time role, so I can still balance my academic duties and some light freelancing, assuming no conflicts of interest. At times it’s been a whiplash-inducing, Verdana-drenched challenge, but I’m starting to find my rhythm now, and hell: if you want impact on an entire sector, regulators offer huge opportunities. Hopefully I can make the most of them.