Frederike Kaltheuner works on the intersection of emerging technology, ethics, and rights. Previously, she was the Director for technology and human rights at Human Rights Watch. Before joining HRW, she was a Special Advisor for the Vice President of the European Commission, as well as the inaugural Director of the European AI Fund, a philanthropic initiative to strengthen civil society in Europe. From 2019 to 2020 she was a public interest Tech Policy Fellow at the Mozilla Foundation. Previously she was a Director at the London-based NGO Privacy International, where she led the organisation’s work on corporate surveillance. Her team’s technical investigations into the murky world of online advertising have led to statutory inquiries by regulators and caused some of the world’s most downloaded apps to change their practices.