Research Interests: Technology Policy, Intellectual Property, Data Privacy & Security
Dissertation: Inference Access: Reexamining Trade Secrecy for Privacy
Dissertation Committee:
Prof. Michael Mattioli (Primary Supervisor)
Prof. Joseph Tomain
Prof. Asaf Lubin
Education:
SJD, Candidate, Indiana University Maurer School of Law (2021- Present)
LLM, Indiana University Maurer School of Law
LLB (1st Honors), Thammasat University, Thailand
Publications:
• Promoting the Transparency of AI-Generated Inferences, in The Quest for AI Sovereignty, Transparency and Accountability: An Outcome of the UN IGF-DAIGC 2023 [preliminary version].
• Understanding the Face Surveillance Restriction Debate, Alliance for Citizen Engagement (2023).
• Generative AI in Law School: Cool Tool or Legal Fool?, Maurer Global Forum (2023).
• Understanding the TikTok Personal Device Ban Debate, Alliance for Citizen Engagement (2023).
• Thailand’s First Data Protection Law: A Quick Review, Maurer Global Forum (2022).
• Copyright’s Fixation Requirement: Is It Still Needed? (2020) (LL.M. thesis, Indiana University) (on file with the Indiana University Law Library).
Presentations:
• Meta-Problems: Government Access to Data in the Metaverse (poster), Trust and Safety Research Conference at Stanford University (Sep. 28, 2023) [URL]
• Discussing Trade Secrecy: When Companies Own Your Secrets, Are They Still Secret?, Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities 25th Annual Conference held at the University of Toronto (virtual panel), June 22, 2023. [URL]
• Access the Inferences: Knowing What Companies Know About You, Graduate Colloquium at Indiana University Maurer School of Law, March 3, 2022. [URL]
Other:
• Bunchana Atthakor Scholarship, issued Office of International Services at Indiana University Bloomington (2022);
• Scribe Award for Excellence in Academic Legal Writing, issued Indiana University Maurer School of Law (2022);
• Certified Information Privacy Professional certifications (CIPP/E and CIPP/US), issued IAPP (2021);
• 3rd Prize for Internet Policy Hackathon, issued Internet Law and Policy Foundry (2021);
• Outstanding Academic Achievement Award, issued Indiana University Maurer School of Law (2020).
Biography:
Attamongkol (“Atta”) is a Doctor of Juridical Science (S.J.D.) candidate at Indiana University Maurer School of Law, where he serves as a graduate affiliate for the Center of Applied Cybersecurity Research (CACR). Before commencing his doctoral studies, Atta was a policy researcher at Thailand Development Research Institute, where he studied Thailand’s first data protection legislation and helped draft compliance guidelines for different industries. Atta earned his LL.B. from Thammasat University in Thailand and maintains privacy certifications CIPP/E and CIPP/US from IAPP.
