Ms Dimitra Kamarinou, LLB (Aristotle University, Greece), LLM Human Rights (Birkbeck University of London), LLM Corporate & Commercial Law (QMUL)

Profile

Dimitra Kamarinou joined the Centre for Commercial Law Studies in April 2014 as a Research Assistant to the Cloud Legal Project. She is currently conducting research on a full time basis on various legal aspects of cloud computing through the Microsoft funded Cloud Legal Project. Also, Dimitra is currently studying for her PhD at CCLS.

Prior to joining CCLS, Dimitra worked in London as an Associate in an Intellectual Property Strategy Consultancy firm alongside a team of scientists, solicitors and patent attorneys advising a wide range of clients, from technology start-ups to multinationals on the management and monetisation of IP. Prior to that, Dimitra obtained an LLM (Merit) in Corporate and Commercial Law from Queen Mary University of London, in 2012, specialising in data protection and the international transfers of data.

Dimitra originally qualified as an attorney-at-law in Greece, following a long period of training in civil and commercial law, public law litigation and human rights.

Pursuing a long-time interest in the field of individual rights, Dimitra obtained an LLM (Distinction) in Human Rights Law from Birkbeck University of London, in 2010, and went on to join the Europe and Central Asia department of Amnesty International in London in a research capacity. Dimitra has also had experience organising student moot competitions, where she has acted as a Human Rights Judge.

From January 2020 to April 2021, Dimitra was a visiting lecturer at King’s College London (the Dickson Poon School of Law). Dimitra worked with Mr Perry Keller on the Information Privacy & Data Protection module of the LLM program and led the weekly Q&A and group seminars.

In 2022, the Cloud Legal Project launched on Coursera an innovative online specialisation in Cloud Computing Law. Dimitra Kamarinou is an instructor in the week that covers data protection law.

Research

Research Interests:

• All aspects of Cloud Computing
• Data protection; international transfers of personal data
• European and International Human Rights law
• Intellectual Property; regulation, management and monetisation of IP

Publications

• Dimitra Kamarinou, ‘A guide to data protection in mobile applications’ (2022) World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) Publications, Tools for IP and Mobile Applications. WIPO website at Intellectual Property Rights for Mobile Applications
• Dimitra Kamarinou, Christopher Millard, and Felicity Turton, ‘Protection of Personal Data in Clouds and Rights of Individuals’ in Millard (ed.) Cloud Computing Law (OUP, 2nd  edn 2021), [A version of this chapter is available on SSRN at Protection of Personal Data in Clouds and Rights of Individuals]
• Dimitra Kamarinou, Christopher Millard, and Felicity Turton, ‘Responsibilities of Controllers and Processors of Personal Data in Clouds’ in Millard (ed.) Cloud Computing Law (OUP, 2nd edn 2021), [A version of this chapter is available on SSRN at Responsibilities of Controllers and Processors of Personal Data in Clouds]
• Felicity Turton, Dimitra Kamarinou, Johan David Michels, and Christopher Millard, ‘Privacy in the Clouds Revisited: An Analysis of the Privacy Policies of 40 Cloud Computing Services’ Queen Mary Law Research Paper No 354/2021(7 May 2021), available on SSRN
• Johan David Michels, Dimitra Kamarinou, and Christopher Millard, ‘Beyond the Clouds, Part 2: What Happens to the Files You Store in the Clouds When You Die?’ Queen Mary School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 316/2019 (available on SSRN)
• Christopher Millard and Dimitra Kamarinou, ‘Commentary on Articles 26 to 29 of the GDPR’ in Kuner, Bygrave, Docksey (eds.) The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR): A Commentary, Oxford University Press (1st edn, March 2020).
• Dimitra Kamarinou, Christopher Millard, and Isabella Oldani, ‘Compliance as a Service’, Queen Mary School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 287/2018 (available on SSRN)
• Dimitra Kamarinou, Christopher Millard, and Jatinder Singh, ‘Machine Learning with Personal Data’ (28 December 2017) in Ronald Leenes et al. (eds) Data Protection and Privacy: The Age of Intelligent Machines, Hart Publishing. [An earlier version of this paper is available on SSRN]
• Dimitra Kamarinou, Christopher Millard, and W. Kuan Hon, ‘Cloud Privacy: an empirical study of 20 cloud providers’ terms and privacy policies – Part I’, 2016, International Data Privacy Law, 6 (2), pp. 79-101.
• Dimitra Kamarinou, Christopher Millard, and W. Kuan Hon, ‘Cloud Privacy: an empirical study of 20 cloud providers’ terms and privacy policies – Part II’, 2016, International Data Privacy Law, 6 (3), pp. 170-194.
• Kamarinou, D, International transfers of personal data and corporate compliance under Directive 95/46/EC, the draft Regulation and the international community: Part 1, Comms. L. 2013, 18(2), 49-55
• Kamarinou, D, International transfers of personal data and corporate compliance under Directive 95/46/EC, the draft Regulation and the international community: Part 2, Comms. L. 2013, 18(3), 88-96
• ‘Law, Policing and Human Rights’ Report, (Co-author, together with the Big Voice London team members, 2012), LexisNexis, launched in December 2012. The report was included in the response to the Home Office Consultation on Police Powers of Stop and Search in July 2013 submitted by The Hackney Community Law Centre and Big Voice London.