Data Protection

Dr. Chaminda Hewage is a Reader (Associate Professor) in Data Security in the Cardiff School of Technologies at Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK where he is also the Associate Dean Research for the school. He is the fFounding Director of the Cybersecurity and Information Networks Centre (CINC) at Cardiff Metropolitan University. He received a B.Sc. Engineering (First Class Honours Degree) in Electrical and Information Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering, University of Ruhuna (Sri Lanka) in 2004 and a Ph.D. in Multimedia Communications from the University of Surrey (UK) in 2009. He was awarded the Gold Medal for best performance in Engineering (2014) by the University of Ruhuna for his achievements in undergraduate studies at the General Convocation held in 2004. After graduation, he joined Sri Lanka Telecom PLC (Sri Lanka) as a Telecommunication Engineer (2004). In September 2005, he was awarded the Overseas Research Scholarships (ORS) scholarship by the Higher Education Funding Council of England (Universities UK) to pursue his Ph.D. at the University of Surrey, UK. Upon completion of his PhD, he works as a researcher at the University of Surrey, UK and Kingston University, London, UK. In 2015, he joined Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK as a Senior Lecturer in Networking and Cyber Security. In 2014, he received a Post-Graduate Certification in Higher Education (HE) Teaching and Learning from Kingston University - London. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA), UK. He is a Senior member of the IEEE and Member of IET and the Chartered Institute of Information Security (CIISec).

Dr. Lasith Yasakethu is a Senior Lecturer in Department of Applied Electronics, Sri Lanka Technological Campus. He is currently serving as the Dean of Faculty of Technology. Dr. Yasakethu received his BSc. Engineering degree (First Class Hons.) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, in 2007. He was awarded the prize for best performance in Electronic Communication Engineering by the University of Peradeniya for his achievements in undergraduate studies. After graduation, he joined Dialog Telecom (Pvt.) Ltd., Sri Lanka as a Core-Network Engineer (2007). In October 2007 he was awarded the Overseas Research Scholarships Award by the Higher Education Funding Council of England to pursue PhD at the University of Surrey, UK. After completing his PhD, he worked as a Research Engineer for Technicolor Research & Innovations (formerly known as THOMSON R&D), in Rennes, France (2010-2012). Dr. Yasakethu worked as a Research Fellow and a Senior Research Fellow at University of Surrey, UK and Kingston University, London, UK respectively (2012-2014). Afterwards, he worked as a Senior Lecturer at Department of Mechatronics, Faculty of Engineering, SAITM, Sri Lanka (2014-2016) and Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka (2016-2018). His area of expertise is 3D Video Communication, Perception and Cyber Security. Dr. Yasakethu has worked for several European Commission Framework Program-6 (FP6), and Framework Program-7 (FP7) and Horizon 2020 projects. He is a member of IEEE & an author/reviewer of several IEEE/IET journal/conference publications.

Prof. Dushantha Nalin Jayakody,  is a Senior Member IEEE, Fellow, IET,  and received the Ph. D. degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering, from the University College Dublin, Ireland in 2014. He received his MSc degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Eastern Mediterranean University, Turkey. He was ranked as the top 2% scientist in the world in 2021, 2022 and 2023 by the Stanford Elsevier list. In 2021, he received the Sri Lankan Presidential Award for his outstanding research performance among many other awards and recognitions.  Since 2022, he is a Professor at the Lusófona

Chapter 1 The data protection challenges and opportunities due to the emerging AI and ML technologies.- Chapter 2: Death becomes data.- Chapter 3 Redefining Reality in Political Propaganda: Exploring the Impact of Superimposed Deepfakes in Misinformation Campaigns.- Chapters 4 Profiling and Privacy: The Responsibility for Data Privacy in the Wake of Advancing Technologies.- Chapter 5 Assessing the Application of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Detecting Misinformation and Disinformation.- Chapter 6 Trust and trustworthiness: Privacy Protection in the ChatGPT Era.- Chapter 7 Beyond the Black Box: XAI Strategies for Safeguarding Critical Infrastructure.- Chapter 8 Data Protection Challenges in the Processing of Sensitive Data.- Chapter 9 Metaverse Meets Robotics: Addressing Data Protection and Privacy in Robotic Environment.- Chapter 10 Detecting Deepfakes Through the Classification of Facial Active and Passive Features Using Machine Learning.- Chapter 11 Smart Cities, Secure Data: Navigating the Evolving Landscape of Data Protection Challenges.- Chapter 12 Disinformation and the Impact on Democracy.