Kate Robertson

Kate Robertson is a senior research associate at the Citizen Lab. Her research focuses on the intersection of law, policy, and technology, and examines transparency and accountability mechanisms relevant to the relationship between corporations and state agencies in the use of personal data and other surveillance activities. She has published research on emerging technologies, cybersecurity, and transnational law enforcement systems, and has previously represented public interest organizations in digital rights cases before the Supreme Court of Canada. She draws on former experience as a law clerk to the Honourable Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella of the Supreme Court of Canada, and subsequently, as a criminal lawyer in Canada’s justice system.