George Chalhoub is an Assistant Professor in Human-Computer Interaction at University College London and an Associate Member at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford.
He holds a PhD in Cybersecurity from the University of Oxford, where he also completed postdoctoral research. George's work sits at the intersection of privacy, security, and digital governance, informed by experience across academia and industry—including previous roles at Microsoft Research and Nokia Bell Labs. At the Center, his research focuses on the modern-day weaponization of copyright law. Drawing on a dataset of over 20 million DMCA notices archived by Lumen, he is investigating how takedown requests are used not only to protect intellectual property, but also to remove harmful AI-generated content such as deepfakes, and - more concerningl - to suppress speech or erase lawful material. His project aims to surface patterns of misuse and propose safeguards to make takedown systems more accountable, transparent, and resistant to abuse.
