Aashka Vyas - Legal Intern

I am an LL.M. graduate from Georgetown University Law Center, with a focus on technology law, data privacy, surveillance regulation, and AI governance. My academic and professional interests center on building rights-oriented legal frameworks for emerging technologies, particularly where unchecked surveillance and weak data protection disproportionately affect civil liberties and marginalized communities. Having grown up in India and witnessed the rapid expansion of digital infrastructure without robust privacy safeguards, I became deeply interested in questions of state surveillance, accountability, and equitable technology governance. My work has included research on India’s data protection law, privacy-by-design safeguards such as pseudonymization, and policy proposals addressing surveillance and cybersecurity frameworks. At Georgetown, I have further developed these interests through coursework in privacy law, AI liability, constitutional law, and platform governance, as well as through my research assistantship at the Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), where I analyze governance risks in AI-enabled decision support systems.