Postgraduate Research Student
Noriswadi Ismail
Institute of Computer and Communications Law, CCLS, School of Law
Thesis title:
Radio Frequency Identification Technology (RFID): an interdisciplinary analysis of data surveillance and privacy in the United Kingdom (UK) and European Union (EU)
Supervisors:
Anne Flanagan and Professor Ian Walden.
Biography:
Noriswadi Ismail is the Group General Counsel / Company Secretary of HeiTech Padu Berhad, a leading public listed ICT Company of Bursa Malaysia Stock Exchange, Technology Board. He is currently on study leave to focussing on his PhD research for three years. He was called to the Malaysian Bar as Advocate & Solicitor in 2001 after obtaining his LLB in Ahmad Ibrahim Kulliyyah of Laws, International Islamic University Malaysia. He is also a qualified Patent and Trade Mark Agent in Malaysia. In 2005, he was awarded the Association Overseas Technical Scholarship for a three weeks Intellectual Property Rights Training (for Lawyers) in Tokyo, Japan.
Noriswadi is an MPhil/PhD Candidate at the Institute of Computer and Communications Law, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary, University of London. His research is funded by the Malaysian Government Agency (Majlis Amanah Rakyat) Excellent Student Scheme Scholarship programme. Prior to that, in 2006/2007, he clinched the British Chevening Scholarship for LLM in Information Technology & Telecommunications Law at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. In 2009, he clinched the prestigious Malaysian Young Manager Of The Year Award 2008 awarded by the Malaysian Institute of Management and Public Bank Berhad.
Research:
Noriswadi’s research will focus on RFID technology and its interrelationship between data surveillance and privacy. A significant part of the research will be on consumer and medical informatics’ privacy. At macro level, he attempts to substantiate the interrelationship between the technology and privacy. At micro level, he attempts to establish new tests and approaches to ensuring that the pervasiveness of RFID technology will not inhibit possible downside of privacy in the UK and EU. He is being supervised by Professor Ian Walden and Anne Flanagan.
Noriswadi’s research interests also include: communications laws, legal and strategic aspects of information security, regulations and policies, global data protection and privacy, digital intellectual property rights and comparative technology laws and strategies. He blogs occasionally at: http://the-rfid-nexus.blogspot.com.
