Dr Marion Oswald is Vice-Chancellor’s Senior Fellow in Law at Northumbria University and an Associate Fellow of the Royal United Services Institute. She researches the interaction between law and digital technology and has a particular interest in the use of information and innovative technology by criminal justice bodies and the wider public sector. Marion is PI and Director of the AHRC-funded 'Observatory for the Monitoring of Data-Driven Approaches to Covid-19'. She chairs the West Midlands Police & Crime Commissioner and West Midlands Police data ethics committee and is a member of the National Statistician's Data Ethics Advisory Committee.