Dr. Ivan Szekely, social informatist, is an internationally known expert in the multidisciplinary fields of data protection and freedom of information. Former chief counsellor of the Hungarian Data Protection ombudsman, and associate professor at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Szekely is at present Senior Research Fellow and Counsellor of the Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives at Central European University. His research interests and publications are focused on information autonomy, openness and secrecy, privacy, identity, surveillance and resilience, memory and forgetting, and archivistics.