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Graph · Person
Amelia Andersdotter
01 · In focus
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02 · Connections
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03 · Background
From the source record.
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Swedish digital-rights activist and technical-standards specialist, based in Brussels; the corpus's primary Swedish-language anchor in the European civil-society digital-rights layer. Born 30 August 1987 in Uppsala, she studied mathematics, physics, Spanish, and business law at Lund University and completed an MSc in mathematical statistics at Uppsala University. She joined the Swedish Pirate Party shortly after its 2006 founding and served as international coordinator of its youth wing Ung Pirat from 2007 to 2010.
Andersdotter served as a Member of the European Parliament from December 2011 to May 2014, representing Swedish Pirate Party as one of the youngest MEPs of that legislature. She sat on the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and was the committee's rapporteur on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) — the European Parliament ultimately rejected ACTA in July 2012, a result widely attributed in part to civil-society and parliamentary pressure in which she played a named role. She was named one of the world's ten most important internet activists in 2012 for this work. She was also a member of the IGF Multistakeholder Advisory Group from 2013 to 2016.
Her civil-society trajectory runs in parallel with and outlasts the parliamentary period. In 2015 she founded and chaired Dataskydd.net Sverige — a Swedish NGO focused on making data-protection law practical for ordinary organisations and citizens, and the home of webbkoll, a publicly available tool that checks what tracking technology websites deploy against users. Post-parliament she joined ARTICLE 19 as a technical standards consultant covering human rights in IEEE 802, IETF, and 3GPP network-hardware standards, and in parallel advised ANEC (the European consumer-voice in standardisation) on consumer rights in IoT under ISO PC 317. From 2020 to 2022 she was technical privacy advisor to the Ada Lovelace Institute's Rethinking Data project. Until May 2023 she was in the response team of European Digital Rights (EDRi), the Brussels-based network of civil-society organisations working to defend rights and freedoms in the digital environment. She has since held roles as Director of Strategic Initiatives at the Council of European National Top-Level Domain Registries (CENTR), risk and compliance officer at Safespring AB, and interim managing director of the Universal Privacy Alliance. Her distinctive position in the corpus is the continuous arc from early Pirate Party organising through technical standards work and into data-protection civil society — applied over more than fifteen years across the Swedish, European, and international digital-rights landscape.
04 · Sources
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en.wikipedia.org
Checked 2026-06-08English Wikipedia biography — secondary source for birth date 30 August 1987 in Uppsala; study at Lund University (mathematics, physics, Spanish, business law) and MSc from Uppsala University; joining the Swedish Pirate Party shortly after its 2006 founding; coordinating Ung Pirat as international coordinator 2007–2010; MEP from December 2011 to May 2014 as one of the youngest MEPs of that legislature; Committee on Industry, Research and Energy; ACTA rapporteur for that committee; visiting-researcher period at Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore; and post-parliament technical-standards work with ARTICLE 19 and ANEC
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amelia.andersdotter.cc
Checked 2026-06-08Andersdotter's own website — primary source for her current positions as risk and compliance officer at Safespring AB and interim managing director at Universal Privacy Alliance; prior roles including Director of Strategic Initiatives at CENTR and Senior Standards Manager at Sky Group; chairpersonship of Dataskydd.net Sverige (2015–2024); EDRi response-team membership (until May 2023); Ada Lovelace Institute Rethinking Data advisory role (2020–2022); Acceptable Ads Committee membership (2019–2021); editorial council membership at Liberal debatt (2016–2020); and IGF MAG membership (2013–2016)
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netnod.se
Checked 2026-06-08Netnod speaker profile — primary source for Andersdotter's role as "a technical standards consultant with ARTICLE19 and ANEC, covering privacy processes and human rights in technical design choices for all kinds of network hardware" and for the webbkoll.dataskydd.net privacy-check tool she co-created
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edri.org
Checked 2026-06-08EDRi article co-authored by Andersdotter and Mallory Knodel (2018) — primary source establishing her affiliation at that time as "EDRi member Article 19, United Kingdom" and her technical work on DNS-over-HTTPS and browser-based privacy protections
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crypto.news
Checked 2026-06-08Crypto.news report — primary source for her appointment as interim managing director at the Universal Privacy Alliance and her description as "a long-time advocate for internet privacy"
Source: entities/persons/person-amelia-andersdotter.md — movement-graph pin 5d136ad.