Dr.
Wenlong
Li
China
Privacy & Data Protection Office, Bytedance
Dr Wenlong Li is a Senior Researcher at the Privacy & Data Protection Office, Bytedance. He is also a Research Affiliate at the Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture & Society (CDCS) and teaches at Edinburgh Law School. Previously, Wenlong worked in his research capacity at the University of Birmingham (interdisciplinary postdoc in Law, Ethics & Computer), Alibaba Research (Data/AI Policy), Tencent Institute (internet law), and the University of Political Science & Law, China (media law). He also served as an editor for SCRIPTed, and Legal Theory in China. Wenlong completed his PhD in IT law at the University of Edinburgh, LL.M by research (Law and Journalism) & LL.B. at the University of Political Science and Law (China). Despite a legal scholar by training, Wenlong identifies himself as an interdisciplinary scholar that attends to the impacts of new technologies through various lens e.g., law, computer science, ethics, political economy, environment. His research interests include privacy and data protection, data governance, data sharing & flows (notably data portability and interoperability), freedom of expression, AI governance & ethics, & digital advertising. Wenlong is also a moot court enthusiast and has been actively engaged in the Price International Media Law Moot Court in his capacity of oralist, coach and judge.