Lizzie O'Shea

Lizzie sues companies and governments that do the wrong thing. She works and speaks about the intersection of technology, law and human rights.

As a principal lawyer at Maurice Blackburn, the country’s premier class actions law firm, she leads large scale litigation against major technology companies on behalf of thousands of people who have been harmed by them.As the founder and chair of Digital Rights Watch, Australia’s leading digital rights organisation, she advocates for stronger laws to protect people from predatory industries and dangerous business models. She is an author of two books, and a contributing author to three more, which explore campaigns to protect human rights and the history and future of technology.