Oleksandr Pastukhov

Biography

Dr. Oleksandr (Alex) Pastukhov is a Senior Lecturer with the Department of Policy and Governance of the Faculty of Media and Knowledge Sciences at the University of Malta. Oleksandr obtained his LL.B. with major in Private International Law from Kiev Taras Shevchenko University in Ukraine (1997), LL.M. from Northwestern University School of Law in the U.S. (2000), LL.D. from Koretsky Institute of State and Law in Ukraine (2003) and Ph.D. in Law from Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium (2008). He spent his post-doc years at the VU University Amsterdam in the Netherlands and Strathclyde University in Glasgow, Scotland. Oleksandr is a regular participant and speaker at various national and international fora dedicated to ICT law and policy issues. He is an author of numerous publications and expert reports on diverse legal aspects of ICT use and development. Oleksandr has also initiated and administered a number of ICT law-related research, consultancy and training projects sponsored by the EU, the U.S. and NATO. At the LSTS, Oleksandr is an Associate Researcher on a Short Term Scientific Mission (STSM) under the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Action IC1206 "De-Identification for Privacy Protection in Multimedia Content". The objectives of the STSM include defining legal consequences of (irreversible) de-identification of CCTV data, technological and legal requirements that irreversible de-identification should meet, the associated risks and the examples of failed irreversible de-identification exercises from the past. Correspondingly, lessons for the future are to be drawn and recommendations for rendering de-identification efforts legally compliant are to be put forward. The research is being carried out under the guidance of Prof. Paul De Hert and relies heavily on the expertise and resources of the LSTS as a whole.

Research Interest

failed irreversible de-identification exercises