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Beatriz Botero Arcila

Faculty Associate

I am an Assistant Professor of law in the digital information economy at Sciences Po Paris and Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. 

In 2024, my article “Future-Proofing Transparency: Re-Thinking Public Record Governance for the Age of Big Data,” was selected for the Future of Privacy Forum 's 14th Annual Privacy Papers Award. I was also a 2024 International Strategy Forum Fellow. My research and work focuses on data and AI governance. Over the past 5 years my work has focused on three main issues: smart city and urban technology governance; AI governance, with a focus on liability; and data openess and sharing. Currently, my research focuses on the institutional enablers of AI and digital technologies diffusion, a project I will continue to work on this year at the Center. I hold an LLB from Universidad de los Andes in Colombia, and an LLM and an SJD from Harvard Law School. I am also co-founder of The Edgelands Institute, an interdisciplinary institute focused on understanding and raising awareness urban digital surveillance.

Projects & Tools

Digital Identity

Exploring the ethical and human rights considerations of digital identity.

News

News
Mar 30, 2023

Digital Identity During Times of Crisis

What We Learned During the Fall 2022 Research Sprint

BKC hosted a 10-week Research Sprint from October to December 2022 investigating Digital Identity in Times of Crisis, in collaboration with partners metaLAB at Harvard, the…

Community

Mozilla

AI Liability Along the Value Chain

In a new report for Mozilla, Beatriz Botera Arcila explores how liability law can help make sense of the complex nature of responsibility with respect to AI.

Apr 1, 2025
Michigan State Law Review

Future-Proof Transparency: Rethinking Public Records Governance for the Age of Big Data

“Can the interest in record publicity coexist with the growing ease of de-anonymizing and revealing sensitive information about individuals?”

Feb 5, 2025
Journal of Free Speech Law

Is it a Platform? Is it a Search Engine? It's Chat GPT! The European Liability Regime for Large Language Models

BKC Faculty Associate Beatriz Botero Arcila examines the question of how to regulate large language models to minimize risks while still allowing for potential benefits to be…

Aug 25, 2023
Think Tank European Parliament

Social media platforms and challenges for democracy, rule of law and fundamental rights

BKC Faculty Associate Beatriz Botero Arcila and collaborator Rachel Griffin release a study commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and…

Apr 3, 2023
Medium

The fight over our post-COVID future should be as much about welfare as it is about tech

Surveillance thrives in unequal environments, and the pandemic will increase inequality. We need a welfare state for our digital information economy, argues Beatriz Botero Arcila.

May 18, 2020
Americas Quarterly

Latin America Hopes Big Data Can Beat the Virus. But There Are Risks.

Beatriz Botero Arcila warns that while location data might help address the coronavirus outbreak, it also threatens the privacy of citizens.

Apr 21, 2020
Medium

We need privacy and data laws to tackle this global pandemic

Governments are increasingly using digital technologies and big data analytics to address the Covid-19 pandemic. At this stage of the pandemic, these technologies may not deliver…

Mar 18, 2020
Medium

The system is rigged against users

Another reason why getting compensated for data is not a good idea

BKC fellow Beatriz Botero Arcila on why getting compensated for your personal data is not a good idea.

Feb 24, 2020

Events

Apr 22, 2021 @ 9:00 PM

Edgelands Institute APAC Launch

INTRODUCING AN INTERDISCIPLINARY POP-UP INSTITUTE

The Edgelands Institute is an interdisciplinary pop-up institute to redraw our social contract in our era of mass-urbanization, surveillance, pandemics, and other emergencies,…

Event
Apr 8, 2021 @ 1:00 PM

Edgelands Institute Launch Event

Introducing an interdisciplinary pop-up institute

The Edgelands Institute is an interdisciplinary pop-up institute to redraw our social contract in our era of mass-urbanization, surveillance, pandemics, and other emergencies,…