Anouk Ruhaak

Anouk joined our team as a Mozilla Fellow in 2019 and works with as a research fellow. She creates new models of data governance for the public good. As an architect and advocate of data trusts, she promotes models of data stewardship which safeguard privacy, and protect society from the negative externalities of data sharing. She works with AlgorithmWatch to advance our activities in the field of data donations, which we want to expand and establish as a method and tool for algorithmic accountability. Anouk worked as a consultant for the Open Data Institute and a data journalist for Platform Investico, where she researched investigative stories around surveillance and privacy. She has a background in political economics and software development, and founded several communities in the tech space.