Ignacio Cofone

Ignacio Confone is a Professor of Law and Regulation of AI at the University of Oxford, Faculty of Law, and affiliated member of the Quebec AI Institute (Mila) and the Yale Law School Information Society Project. Ignacio studies how AI systems affect legal concepts like privacy, fairness, and responsibility to find how law should govern new harms and risks AI creates through inference, prediction, and profiling.

Formerly the Canada Research Chair in AI Law and Data Governance at McGill University, he remains a leading voice in shaping Canadian privacy and technology regulation. He is also author of The Privacy Fallacy: Harm and Power in the Information Economy (Cambridge University press 2023), which examines how to reform privacy law for the data economy, and has advised governments, courts, companies, and government organizations—including the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada and the Commission d'accès à l'information du Québec—on modernizing privacy law and adapting legal frameworks for artificial intelligence.