Dr Matthew White

LLB (Sheffield Hallam), PhD (Sheffield Hallam)

Trinity Hall WYNG Associate in Data Protection and Common Law Systems and Member of CIPIL

Dr Matthew White is Trinity Hall WYNG Associate in Data Protection and Common Law Systems and a Member of CIPIL. He obtained his doctorate in law at Sheffield Hallam University, as well as his LLB (First Class). Previously, as a Research Fellow at the University of Southampton, he co-authored three articles concerning privacy of the dead (post-mortem privacy). Matthew has specialised in the human rights impact of surveillance technologies and laws. He has written on privacy, surveillance (and the oversight of said laws), data protection, immigration, connected and autonomous vehicles and has even featured in the European Data Protection Law Review’s Young Scholar Award. Matthew has also written a book which concerns the data retention aspect of the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 and its risk to democracy and human rights. This was published by Routledge in 2025. In addition to this, Matthew has published 10 articles in leading journals in the last eight years.