About
I’m Eliot Bendinelli, I’m a privacy advocate, a musician, a developer, an open-source believer and an internet dreamer that hasn’t lost all hope, yet. Between 2018 and 2025 I worked at Privacy International as Technologist and Programme Lead for the Corporate Exploitation programme. Before that I worked in UN organisations (ITU, UNEP), a European think tank and for web companies (Acyba & Hikashop).
I now work with Data Rights to develop its strategy on data portability and interoperability matters, with the aim to open up tech monopolies while protecting privacy and security.
I also offer consultancy services including policy development, educational content, advocacy strategy, tech research and AI position development. Don’t hesitate to get in touch if you want to have a chat.
Expertise
Online advertising & Data Protection
- Op-ed: Criteo : « La décision de la CNIL s’attaque à la chaîne de production de données irresponsable qui règne dans l’industrie publicitaire en ligne », Le Monde, 2023, on Adtech company Criteo (co-author)
- Explainer: The companies in control of our secret identities, Privacy International, 2021
- Technical research: Your Mental Health for Sale, Privacy International, 2019, research into depression websites tracking users and leaking personal data with advertisers (report)
- Documentary: “Made to Measure: A Digital Search for Traces”, 2021, documentary on online tracking and profiling
- Essay: “Données? Reprise.”, Jet d’encre, 2018, on data monetisation
Privacy & security
- Essay: The hidden threat: Privacy and security risks in chips, Privacy International, 2025
- Documentary: “All the Prime Minister’s Men”, Al Jazeera, 2021, interview on the use of IMSI Catchers in Bangladesh (at 48:50)
- Interview: Application StopCovid: ce que les dispositifs de surveillance mis en place à l’étranger nous apprennent sur le projet français, France Info, 2020, on covid tracking technologies
Artificial Intelligence and Automated decision-making
- Essay: Are AI Assistants built for us or to exploit us? and other questions for the AI industry, Privacy International, 2025
- Essay: Your future AI Assistant still needs to earn your trust, Privacy International, 2025
- Essay: Generative AI won’t take over the world, surveillance capitalism already has, Privacy International, 2024
- Interview: How AI impacts Human Rights, Mozilla Foundation, 2024
Gig Economy, Algorithmic management and workplace surveillance
- Advocacy: Joint declaration in support of standards on decent work in the platform economy at the international labour conference 2025, Privacy International, 2025
- Policy recommendations: Transparency and explainability for algorithmic decisions at work, Privacy International, 2025
- Research: Creating content in the gig economy: a risky business, Privacy International, 2023
Panels and conferences
- DICOPO online roundtable on AI and Data Regulation, 2024, panelist
- Biometrics Institute Congress 2023, panelist
- Privacy Symposium Africa 2023, panelist
- PrivacyCamp 2022, panelist
- Blackhat 2019, speaker. Talk on depression website tracking users (Your Mental Health for Sale)
- Internet Freedom Festival 2019, speaker
- Digital Security EduCon, 2019, speaker