Nicole/Yung Au is a doctoral candidate and researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute. Her research explores technology infrastructures, automation and vertical/aerial surveillance. Her DPhil is generously funded by the Clarendon Scholarship, St Antony’s Warden’s Scholarship, and the Rotary Global Scholar Fund.
Critical data/algorithm studies, infrastructure studies, critical geography studies, geometries of power, de-centering the west, post-colonial contexts, marginalized communities, critical AI studies, non-state governance, territory, subversive technology, areas of limited statehood
This programme supports research on AI, Government and Policy.
This project examines the fragmented legislations and legal landscape that governs the development, sale, and deployment of AI technologies used for government surveillance.
With Dr Corinne Cath, Nicole (Yung) Au, Dr Ashwin Mathew, and Dr Luc Rocher
We bring together three expert panelists to discuss this topic through their contributions to a recently published book, called Eaten by the Internet.
By Yung Au
Yung Au’s new report Surveillance as a Service: The European AI-Assisted Mass Surveillance Marketplace examines the European marketplace that produces and exports AI-assisted surveillance systems to governments around the world.
9 November 2023
Eight OII DPhil students have received Dieter Schwarz Foundation (DSF) funding to enable them to begin a 12-month research project during the course of their studies.
2 December 2020
In a new study by the Oxford Internet Institute, analysis shows large technology companies of offering multiple levels of services are providing the fundamental back-end infrastructure that supports controversial Covid-19 related websites.
10 December 2019
Researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, have launched ‘The ComProp Navigator’, a new online resource guide which aims to help civil society groups better understand and respond to the problem of disinformation.
