Peter Alexander Earls Davis
Areas of interest
- Cryptography
- Cybersecurity
- Privacy and data protection
- Contract law
Background
Peter Davis graduated from the University of Western Australia with an LLB and B.Com in 2015 before taking up Articles in a multidisciplinary firm (Cullen Macleod) where he worked primarily in the area of commercial litigation.
After being admitted as a lawyer in the Supreme Court of Western Australia, Peter commenced an LLM in Information Communication Technology Law at the University of Oslo. During his thesis semester he was engaged as a Research Assistant for the SIGNAL project, focusing on the area of data protection and privacy. He is now a PhD candidate under the SIGNAL project where he is writing on regulatory issues relating to cryptography.
Lecturing
Peter has lectured in the Cybersecurity and Electronic Commerce courses, and will take over the English Law of Contract course whilst Lee Bygrave is on sabbatical.
Publications
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Davis, Peter Alexander Earls (2022). Decrypting Australia’s ‘Anti-Encryption’ Legislation: the Meaning and Effect of the ‘Systemic Weakness’ Limitation. Computer Law and Security Review. ISSN 0267-3649. 44(April 2022), p. 1–17. doi: 10.1016/j.clsr.2022.105659. Full text in Research Archive
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Davis, Peter Alexander Earls (2020). Facial Detection and Smart Billboards: Analysing the ‘Identified’ Criterion of Personal Data in the GDPR. European Data Protection Law Review (EDPL). ISSN 2364-2831. 6(3), p. 365–377. doi: 10.21552/edpl/2020/3/7.
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Davis, Peter Alexander Earls & Tosoni, Luca (2021). The EU Legal Framework: Cybersecurity.
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Davis, Peter Alexander Earls (2021). Encryption and the Rule of Law.
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Davis, Peter Alexander Earls (2021). Tablets that detect how you feel and serve you ads are showing up in cabs and malls. It's a big test of your privacy protections. [Internet]. Business Insider.
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Davis, Peter Alexander Earls & Tosoni, Luca (2020). The EU Cyber Legal Framework.
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Davis, Peter Alexander Earls & Tosoni, Luca (2020). Cybercrime Law and Crypto Wars: International Perspectives.
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Davis, Peter Alexander Earls (2019). Assistance and Access Act (Australia): the Latest Government Attempt to Resist “Going Dark”.
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Davis, Peter Alexander Earls & Tosoni, Luca (2019). EU cybersecurity act, NIS directive, experience with GDPR after one year .
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Davis, Peter Alexander Earls (2018). Biometric Profiling: Privacy, Security and the GDPR.
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Davis, Peter Alexander Earls & Nixon, Brendan John (2017). The Equifax Hack: What Does It Tell Us about the US Regime for Cybersecurity, and What Lessons Does It Teach?