Nathalie Marechal

About

Nathalie participated in the very first REAL ML workshop, in 2019. At the time, she was a Senior Policy Analyst at Ranking Digital Rights (RDR), where she led RDR’s engagement with governments, international and multilateral organizations, civil society groups, and academia, with the aim of holding companies accountable for their duty to respect human rights. Among other accomplishments, Nathalie helped revise RDR’s methodology to address harms associated with the use of algorithmic systems for social media content moderation and with the targeted advertising business model. Discussions and feedback at REAL ML 2019 were integral to that effort. Nathalie is now co-director of the Privacy & Data Program at the Center for Democracy and Technology, where she manages projects related to privacy and data protection in the contexts of artificial intelligence policy, online advertising, disability rights, workers’ rights, and virtual, augmented and extended reality. She also sits on the Board of the Coalition for Independent Technology Research.