Jen Persson
Jen is the Director of Defend Digital Me, a not-for- profit organisation that advocates for children’s privacy and digital rights in UK education and the wider public sector
She currently contributes to the Council of Europe digital citizenship working group on AI and education, which published a critical report on the human rights, democracy, and rule of law implications of AI in education in 2022. As a member of the European Commission Special Group on Code of Conduct for age-appropriate design, she is also interested in the intersection between technology, identity and privacy.
Jen has authored and co-authored multiple publications on the state of data, biometrics, and data policy in the UK education sector, which are available at defenddigitalme.org/research.