Carisa Veliz

Carisa Veliz is a professor at the University of Oxford, specializing in the ethics of technology and privacy. She is the author of the influential book 'Privacy is Power,' where she argues for the importance of privacy in the digital age and critiques the pervasive data practices of tech companies. Veliz is a prominent advocate for stronger privacy protections and often speaks about the implications of surveillance and data collection on individual freedoms. In the recent news, she commented on WhatsApp's new feature allowing users to communicate through usernames, highlighting that while it offers increased privacy, the app itself is not fully privacy-friendly.