Irina Baraliuc is an affiliated researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Law, Science, Technology and Society (LSTS), she focuses her research on the public and the private in the digital world in relation to the enjoyment of copyright protected works online, and on the development of the concept of intellectual privacy. Since 2016, she is the cultural programme coordinator at the Privacy Salon non-profit organization working on bringing privacy, data protection, surveillance, algorithmic awareness as well as other legal, ethical and societal issues raised by technologies into public discussion by means of artistic interventions, public discussions and workshops.