Tiffany Li

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For speaking invitations, please contact me at tli@tiffanyli.com.

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Tiffany C. Li is an internationally recognized scholar of privacy, artificial intelligence, and technology law. Her scholarship has introduced influential frameworks for understanding emerging technologies, including “algorithmic destruction” (a framework for remedying privacy wrongs in AI contexts), “algorithmic shadow” (the lasting imprint of a person’s information on a trained AI system), and privacy as a civil right. New technologies are changing the way we understand privacy and identity. Li’s work explains why—and what we can do about it.

A frequent commentator for national and international media, Li has been featured by the Wall Street Journal, MIT Technology Review, CBS News, and the BBC. She has written for leading publications, including the Washington Post, the Atlantic, Slate, and a recurring column on technology and privacy for MSNBC. With over 100,000 followers on social media, Li is known for her witty, accessible explanations of today’s toughest law and technology questions.

Li speaks regularly to academic, legal, policy, corporate, and public audiences. She is known for making complex developments in AI and privacy law understandable to technical and general audiences. Her talks combine rigorous legal analysis with humor, giving audiences a new way to think about AI, privacy, and the law.

Li is an Associate Professor of Law at Southwestern Law School. She holds a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, an MSt in AI Ethics and Society from the University of Cambridge, and a BA from UCLA. She is a licensed attorney and a Fellow of Information Privacy (FIP) with multiple certifications from the International Association of Privacy Professionals.


Partial List of Past Speaking Events
  • Panel Organizer, “AI and New Technologies,” University of San Francisco School of Law (May 25, 2024)
  • Panel Organizer, “Facebook, Cambridge Analytica, and the Law,” Yale Law School, (April 9, 2018).
  • Panel Organizer, “Internet Speech: Truth, Trust, Transparency, & Tribalism,” State of the Net, (January 29, 2018).
  • Panel Organizer, “Privacy: Innovations and Regulations,” San Francisco, CA, (March 3, 2016).
  • Panelist, Copyright and AI Expert Panel, Sense & Sensibility & Science Deliberative Poll, UC Berkeley (April 2025)
  • Panelist, “Privacy Litigation,” San Francisco Bar Association, San Francisco, CA (April 2025)
  • Panelist, “Why Ethics Still Matter in Privacy (and Business),” Osana Privacy Conference, San Francisco, CA (April 2025)
  • Panelist, “State Constitutional Law in Action,” Georgia Law Review Symposium, Atlanta, GA (March 2025)
  • Panelist, “Chronically Online – Social Media and the First Amendment,” UC Law Journal Symposium, San Francisco, CA (February 2025)
  • Panelist, “‘Law and . . .’: Legal Scholarship and Interdisciplinarity,” American Association of Law Schools Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA (January 2025)
  • Panelist, “Teaching State Constitutional Law,” American Association of Law Schools Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA (January 2025)
  • Panelist, “Remedies at the Intersection of Public and Private Law, American Association of Law Schools Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA (January 2025)
  • Panelist, “What Lawyers and Programmers Get Wrong About Privacy Policies,” Programming Languages and the Law, CalTech, Pasadena, CA (October 2024)
  • Panelist, “Free Speech at the Crossroads: A Silicon Valley Dialogue,” Georgetown University Free Speech Project, San Jose State University (September 20, 2024)
  • Panelist, “AI in the Practice of Law,” California Asian Pacific American Bar Association Annual Conference (September 19, 2024)
  • Panelist, “AI and New Technologies,” University of San Francisco School of Law (May 25, 2024)
  • Panelist, “New Forms of Simulation,” Propaganda & Emerging Technologies Conference, Yale Law School (April 2024)
  • Panelist, “AI, Privacy, and Civil Rights,” University of San Francisco School of Law (February 2024)
  • Panelist, “Power to the People – An Inalienable and Positive Privacy Right,” California Constitutional Privacy at 50: Power of State Law and Promoting Racial Justice in the Age, UC Berkeley School of Law (October 27, 2023)
  • Panelist, “Old Laws, New Property,” XR Conference, Stanford University (January 2023)
  • Panelist, “Privacy and Interoperability,” Stanford Interoperability Workshop (January 2023)
  • Panelist,“The Remote Classroom,” AALS (January 2023).
  • Privacy and Reproductive Rights Roundtable with U.S. Representative Chris Pappas (October 14, 2022)
  • “Learning From the Researchers: Trends in Privacy, Cybersecurity, and Global Cyber Norms,” Messaging, Malware, and Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group Meeting (June 15, 2022).
  • “Privacy Chat with Professors Tiffany Li and Heng Xu,” Future of Privacy Forum (May 13, 2022).
  • “Digital Surveillance and the Fight for Reproductive Rights, Aspen Institute (May 11, 2022).
  • “The Constitutional Right to Privacy,” International Association of Privacy Professionals (May 6, 2022).  https://iapp.org/news/video/the-constitutional-right-to-privacy-2/
  • “Coded Bias Post-Screening Discussion,” University of New. Hampshire (February 16, 2022).
  • “Algorithms in the Academy: Surveillance, Evaluation, and Risk Assessment at Universities,” American Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting (January 9, 2022).
  • “Ethics in the Adoption of New Technology,” Silicon Flatirons, University of Colorado Law School (September 28, 2021).
  • “How Can Open Sharing and Privacy Coexist?” Creative Commons Global Summit (September 20, 2021).
  • “Content Moderation Challenges: The Case of Public Officials (and Beyond),” Wikimedia Foundation (August 5, 2021).
  • “Artificial Intelligence and Privacy,” Maine Law and Northeastern University Law (June 11, 2021).
  • “Contact Tracing Security and Privacy,” USENIX Enigma (February 1, 2021).
  • “You Thought 2020 Was Tough for Content Moderation? Welcome to 2021,” State of the Net (January 27, 2021).
  • “Deep Surveillance,” AALS Intellectual Property Law Section (January 7, 2021)
  • “Technology Law as a Vehicle for Anti-Racism,” UC Berkeley School of Law (November 12, 2020).
  • “TikTok Teens and Spying Machines: Fear of Foreign Apps,” Georgetown Institute for Technology Law and Policy (August 13, 2020).
  • “How Should Nations Regulate Privacy?,” Northeastern University School of Law (February 8, 2020).
  • “Global Forum on Strategic Communications,” Atlantic Council (October 23, 2019).
  • “Scholarship Beyond Borders Symposium,” Yale University (April 4, 2019).
  • “Creative Solutions for the Bias Problem in AI,” South By Southwest (March 11, 2019).
  • “Moderating Online Content With the Help of Artificial Intelligence,” Council on Foreign Relations (November 14, 2018).
  • Keynote Speaker, “Content Moderation at Scale,” COMO Summit, May 7, 2018
  • Panelist, “Facebook, Cambridge Analytica, and the Law,” Yale Law School, April 9, 2018
  • Panelist, “Brave New World: Providing Advice When Innovation Outpaces the Law,” International Trademark Association Brands & Innovation Conference, March 19-20, 2018
  • Workshop Director, “Beyond Intermediary Liability,” Yale Law School, February 13, 2018
  • Panelist, “Is Copyright for Humans Only?” Harvard Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, January 30, 2018 https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2018/luncheon/01/monkeyselfie
  • Moderator, “Internet Speech: Truth, Trust, Transparency, & Tribalism,” State of the Net Conference, January 29, 2018 (Audio: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180213/12011239226/techdirt-podcast-episode-154-truth-trust-transparency-tribalism.shtml ; Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOzGC13LeF4)
  • Panelist, “Fake News, Free Speech, and Foreign Influence: The Smart Way the United States Can Combat Disinformation,” Human Rights First Conference, January 23, 2018
  • Keynote Speaker, “WIII Project,” Yale ISP Ideas Talk, October 26, 2017
  • Panelist, “Navigating Disruptive Technologies,” American Bar Association Intellectual Property Law West Conference, October 11, 2017
  • Panelist, “New ISP Initiatives,” Yale ISP 20th Anniversary Reunion, October 7, 2017
  • Invited Participant, Intellectual Property Scholars Conference, Cardozo School of Law, August 10-11, 2017
  • Presented “Robots vs. Monkeys: A New Copyright Framework for Non-Human Authors”
  • Guest Lecturer, “Privacy & Technology,” Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism, May 16, 2017
  • Guest Speaker, “Privacy & Intellectual Property in the Age of Artificial Intelligence,” Princeton University Center for Information Technology Policy, March 14, 2017
  • Invited Participant, 7th Annual Internet Law Works-in-Progress Conference, Santa Clara University, March 4, 2017 (Presented “Humans Forget, Machines Remember: Artificial Intelligence and the Right To Be Forgotten”)
  • Invited Participant, 14th Annual Works-in-Progress IP Colloquium, Boston University February 10-11, 2017 (Presented“Robots vs. Monkeys: A New Copyright Framework for Non-Human Authors”)
  • Panelist, “Advocate, Educate, Celebrate: Creating an Inclusive Tech Community,” University of Maryland Diversity in Computing Summit, November 7, 2016
  • Panelist, “Non-Traditional Tech: Don’t be Constrained by Stereotypes,” Women in Tech DC, October 27, 2016
  • Keynote Speaker, “Protecting Your Ideas from Copycats,” Millennial Week DC, October 15, 2016
  • Invited Participant and Paper Discussant, Privacy Law Scholars Conference, George Washington University, June 2-3, 2016
  • Co-Director, Mozilla Emerging Leaders Workshop, RightsCon Silicon Valley, San Francisco, CA, March 30, 2016 (Presented How Tech Policy Works and lead interactive workshop, sponsored by the Mozilla Foundation and the Internet Law & Policy Foundry.)
  • Panelist, “Driven, Diversified, & Dynamic: Building a Balanced Tech Industry,” Women in Tech Summit, Washington, DC, March 19, 2016
  • Conference Director, Internet Law & Policy Foundry West Coast Open House and Privacy Panel, Co-Hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, San Francisco, CA, March 3, 2016 (Moderator, “Privacy: Innovations and Regulations”)
  • Panelist, Tech Policy Career Panel, UC Berkeley Center for Technology, Society and Policy, Berkeley, CA, February 2016
  • Invited Participant, 13th Annual Works-in-Progress IP Colloquium, University of Washington School of Law, Seattle, WA, February 19-20, 2016 (Presented Unfolding the Screen of Chinese Privacy Law).
  • Conference Director, Law, Tech and Social Change Symposium, Wikimedia Foundation, San Francisco, CA, July 10, 2013
  • Organizer, “Miss Representation” Screening and Panel Discussion, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC, April 11, 2012