Grants

• FWO Aspirant Fellow funded by Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek – Vlaanderen (FWO) from October 2015 to October 2019 at KU Leuven Centre for IT & IP Law (Belgium).

Books & edited collections

• Clifford, D. The Legal Limits to the Monetisation of Online Emotions. (Forthcoming OUP).

Refereed journal articles

• Damian Clifford and Jeannie Paterson, ‘Consumer Privacy and Consent: Reform in the Light of Contract and Consumer Protection Law’, Australian Law Journal (2020).
• Megan Richardson, Damian Clifford, Karin Clarke and Rachelle Bosua, ‘The Internet of Things and The Meaning of “Personal Data”: A Case Study in Regulation for Rights’, Revue européenne de droit de la consommation (Special issue Internet of Things and Consumer Protection, 2020).
• Clifford, D. and Graef, I. and Valcke, P., Pre-Formulated Declarations of Data Subject Consent – Citizen-Consumer Empowerment and the Alignment of Data, Consumer and Competition Law Protections (forthcoming German Law Journal 2019).
• Graef, I., Clifford, D. and Valcke, P., ‘Fairness and Enforcement: Bridging Competition, Data Protection and Consumer Law’, International Data Privacy Law (Special issue 2018).
• Clifford, D., Ausloos, J., Data Protection and the Role of Fairness, (Yearbook of European Law 2018).
• Valcke, P., Graef, I. and Clifford, D. (2018). ‘iFairness – Constructing Fairness in IT (and other areas of) Law Through Intra- and Interdisciplinarity’, Computer Law and Security Review, 34, 4, 707-714.
• Clifford, D., Verdoodt, V., (2017). Integrative advertising: The marketing ‘dark side’ or merely the Emperor’s new clothes? (Special issue of the European Journal of Law and Technology – Vol 8, No 1).
• Verdoodt, V., Clifford, D., Lievens, E. (2016). Toying with children’s emotions, the new game in town? The legality of advergames in the EU. Computer Law and Security Report, 32 (2016) 599–614.
• Clifford, D., Van Der Sype, Yung Shin (2016). Online dispute resolution: Settling data protection disputes in a digital world of customers. Computer Law and Security Report, 32 (2), 272-285.
• Clifford, D., The Role of the EU in the Re-use of Member State Public Sector Information—the Commercialisation of Publicly Available Data and the Practical Legal Consequences (2015) 22(1) Commercial Law Practitioner.
• Clifford, D., EU Data Protection Law and Targeted Advertising: Consent and the Cookie Monster - Tracking the crumbs of online user behaviour, (5 (3) (2014) JIPITEC pp.194-212).

Book chapters

• Normann Witzleb, Megan Richardson and Damian Clifford, ‘Artificial Intelligence and Sensitive Inferences: Protecting Sensitive Personal Data in the Age of Anxiety ’ in Regulatory Insights on Artificial Intelligence: Research for Policy, Findlay, Ford, Seoh and Thampapillai (eds.) (Forthcoming 2021).
• Clifford, D. ‘Data Protection and Consumer Protection – The Empowerment of the Citizen-Consumer’, in Research Handbook on Privacy and Data Protection Law: Values, Norms and Global Politics, Gloria González Fuster, Rosamunde van Brakel and Paul De Hert (eds.) (Forthcoming 2021).
• Valcke, P., Clifford D. and Steponėnaitė, V.K., ‘Constitutional Challenges in the Emotional AI Era’, in Constitutional Challenges in the Algorithmic Society, Giovanni De Gregorio et al. (eds) (Forthcoming, 2021 Cambridge University Press).
• Clifford, D., ‘Citizen-consumers in a personalised Galaxy: Emotion influenced decision-making, a true path to the dark side?’ in Future law book series, Lilian Edwards, Edina Harbinja and Burkhard Shaffer (eds.) (Edinburgh Uni Press (2020)).
• Anne-Lise Sibony and Damian Clifford, 'La personnalisation illicite: La perspective du droit européen de la consommation', in Le Big Data et le Droit, Florence G'sell (ed.), (Dalloz 2020), 249-272.
• Schroers, J., Clifford, D., ‘Legal Implications of information in sharing’ in Collaborative Cyber Threat Intelligence: Detecting and Responding to Advanced Cyber Attacks at the National Level Florian Skopik (ed.) October 2017 CRC Press.

Conference papers & presentations

Papers

• Lisa Archbold and Damian Clifford, ‘COVID-19, Edtech, Privacy and Children’ at Privacy and Pandemics Information Network, June Roundtable, Melbourne Law School, Monday 15th June 2020.
• Clifford, D. Fairness, data ethics and the legal limits to EU harmonisation. Amsterdam Privacy Conference, University of Amsterdam, 5-8 October 2018.
• Clifford, D., Verdoodt, V. Ad-blocking - the dark side of consumer empowerment: a new hope or will the empire strike back? BILETA Conference. University of Hertfordshire, 11-12 April 2016.
• Verdoodt, V., Clifford, D., Lievens, E. (2015). Toying with children’s emotions, the new game in town? The legality of advergames in the EU. Privacy Law Scholars Conference. Amsterdam, 26th September 2015.
• Clifford, D., Van Der Sype, Yung Shin, Fides Fido: Online Dispute Resolution a trusted solution to e-commerce disputes? Information Ethics and Security, Future of International World Time, (2014) 206-218.

Presentations

• Clifford, D., ‘Smart Contracts and Data Privacy’, at Blockchain Technology, Data Management and Smart Contracts: Challenges and Opportunities Australian National University 24 February 2020.
• Clifford, D., Ausloos, J., Naudts, L., ‘Fairness in EU (data protection) law’, Invited Tutorial FAT* Barcelona, 2020.
• Clifford, D. Panel – ‘Data protection in the smart city: accountability in the multi-actor city environment’, Computers Privacy and Data Protection, Brussels, 2020.
• Clifford, D. ‘The Unfair contract terms Directive and pre-formulated declarations of data subject consent’, Australia – New Zealand Consumer Law Roundtable, University of Melbourne, December 2019.
• Clifford, D. ‘Smart cities’ and the protection of sensitive personal data’, Media and IP Conference, University of Melbourne, December 2019.
• Clifford, D. Panel – ‘Rights in the Digital Age’, Consumer Policy Research Centre Annual Conference, Melbourne, November 2019
• Clifford, D. Panel Chair – (Self-)Portrait in Profile: Profiling and its Effects on Data Subjects in the Light of the New Guidelines, Computers Privacy and Data Protection 24-26 January 2018.
• Verdoodt V., Clifford D., Lievens E. (2015). Playing by the Rules? Collecting minors’ personal data through advergames. Communication & Media Policy in Europe: Policy Challenges in the Austerity & Surveillance Environment, ECREA Communication Law and Policy Workshop, Ljubljana, 7th November 2015.
• Clifford, D. Panel – ‘Data and Privacy’, Digital Citizens Conference, University of Melbourne, July 2019.
• Clifford, D., ‘The Detection of Emotion: The Definition of Personal Data and the ‘Identifiability’ of the Data Subject’, BILETA Conference Aberdeen 10-11 April 2018.
• Clifford, D. ‘The monetisation of online emotions – Personalisation and citizen-consumer Autonomy’, University of Bristol Law School, SLSA Annual Conference 27-29 March 2018.
• Clifford, D. Discussant at Privacy Law Scholars Conference Europe Brussels 2018.
• Clifford, D. Panel – Disconnecting Frameworks: e-Privacy, Digital Content Directive and the GDPR, Computers Privacy and Data Protection, 24-26 January 2018.
• Verdoodt V., Clifford D. (2015). Privacy concerns and the legal boundaries in the fight against botnets. Internet Security Days, Brühl, Germany, 16-17 September 2015.
• Verdoodt V., Clifford D., Lievens E. (2015). The game is on! A critical assessment of the legal compliance of advergames directed at children. International Summer School on Cyber Law, Moscow, 6-10 July 2015.

Invited seminars

• Clifford, D. ‘International data transfers, trade negotiations and the reform of the Australian Privacy Act’, Evening seminar Institute of Advance Legal Studies University of London, 15 October 2020.
• Clifford, D. ‘The transboundary flow of personal data – Privacy, data protection and EU law’, Australian National University, Centre for European Studies, 26th November 2019.
• Clifford, D. ‘The Legal Limits to the Monetisation of Online Emotions’, Australian National University, College of Law, Wednesday 19th June 2019.
• Clifford, D. ‘Emotion Detection, Personalisation and Autonomous Decision-Making Online’, University of Western Australia, 15th April 2019.
• Clifford, D. ‘Emotional cripple: Tech-legal considerations of emotion detection’, Computer Laboratory Cambridge University, Cambridge 27th March 2018, https://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/103438.
• Clifford, D. ‘Artificial Intelligence and the Judiciary: Is there a role?’, Evening seminar Institute of Advance Legal Studies University of London, London 6th March 2018, http://ials.sas.ac.uk/events/event/15596.
• Clifford, D. European Data Protection Supervisor and the Brussels Privacy Hub ‘Putting a price on your invaluable private life? Personal data and the values behind’, Brussels 20th February 2018, https://brusselsprivacyhub.eu/events/20022018.html.
• Clifford, D. ‘Emotion detection, personalisation and autonomous decision-making online’, Evening seminar Institute of Advance Legal Studies University of London, London 5th February 2018, https://ials.sas.ac.uk/events/event/15542.
• Clifford, D., ‘Following the data and consumer protection crumbs towards more aligned protection?’, Guest seminar at TILT Tilburg University 27th June 2017.
• Clifford, D., Valcke, P. ‘Profiled personalisation’, Dagstuhl Seminar 17162 ‘Online Privacy and Web Transparency’ (17-19 April 2017).
• Clifford, D., ‘Profiled personalisation and citizen-consumer autonomy: In (all) “fairness” is change needed?’, Guest seminar at CIPIL Cambridge University, April 10th, 2017.
• Clifford, D., Fairness in data protection, Guest seminar at IVIR University of Amsterdam, 31st of March 2017.

Commissioned reports

• Clifford D., Fairness and the General Data Protection Regulation – Operationalising Fairness in Data Protection Impact Assessments, Draft report for Davidson Chalmers Stewart LLP commissioned by Office of the Data Protection Officer at Facebook, (25 July 2020) [77 pages].
• Graef I., Clifford D., Study on contractual terms and conditions of large e-commerce platforms Final report, European Commission DG for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (December 2017) [95 pages].
• Verdoodt V., Clifford D., E Silva K. 2015. ACDC D1.8.2 – Legal Requirements (second iteration). http://acdc-project.eu/ [43 pages].
• Verdoodt V., Clifford D. 2015. Policy Recommendations for Public Authorities Dealing with the Regulatory Aspects of the Fight against Botnets. http://acdc-project.eu/ [25 pages].
• E Silva K., Verdoodt V., Clifford D. 2015. ACDC D4.3 – Legal validation of the prototype tested during the Pilot. http://acdc-project.eu/ [59 pages].
• Ombelet P., Clifford D. 2015. CLARUS Deliverable 2.4 Legal and Ethical Requirements. [69 pages].
• Clifford D., Verdoodt V., Spangaro A., Finocchiato G. 2015. D7.3 - Information sharing policies in disaster situations – Version 1.
• Vedder A., Clifford D., Truskaller M., Koch K. (2015). D9.4 - Report from Data Protection Coordinator – Version 2. Nussbaumer B. (eds.) [60 pages].
• Verdoodt, Valerie, Clifford, Damian, Sinibaldi, Giorgio, Cruz, Miguel, Cairo, Ignasi, Van Der Sype, Yung Shin (2015) PREEMPTIVE D3.2 - Legal and ethical implementation report. [43 pages].
• Van Der Sype, Yung Shin, Clifford, Damian (2015) MUSES D7.3 Policy recommendations for end-user responsibility. [30 pages].
• Clifford, Damian, Spangaro, Alessandro, Ricci, Annarita, Van Der Sype, Yung Shin (2015) ECOSSIAN D7.2 Legal requirements. [39 pages].
• Nussbaumer, Barbara, Truskaller, Martina, Koch, Klaus-Michael, Vedder, Anton, Clifford, Damian, Van Der Sype, Yung Shin (2015) ECOSSIAN D9.3 Report from Data Protection Coordinator - Version 1. [22 pages].
• Clifford, Damian, Ricci, Annarita, Finocchiaro, Giusella Dolores, Proenca, Luisa, Van Der Sype, Yung Shin, e Silva, Karine (2014) ECOSSIAN D7.1 Analysis of the applicable legal framework. [108 pages].

Case notes & book reviews

• Clifford, D., (2015). Book review: Neil Richards, Intellectual privacy. Rethinking civil liberties in the digital age (Oxford University Press 2015). European Data Protection Law Review, 4 (1), 321-325.