Data Ontology
What is data, and when does a phenomenon become information?
Privacy law · digital semiotics · critique
Dr. Tóth Judit Lenke
A personal professional site for essays, research notes and visual critiques on data protection, consent and digital legal communication.
Dr. Tóth Judit Lenke is a privacy lawyer, DPO and PhD researcher working at the intersection of data ontology, privacy philosophy, AI governance and law by design.
Data is not merely a technical object. Data is human meaning. Privacy is therefore not an administrative question, but a modern form of human dignity.
Research focus
From data to human dignity
The research programme examines how raw phenomena become data, how data becomes information, and how certain information reaches identity, autonomy and dignity.
Philosophy of Privacy
Privacy as a question of autonomy, identity and dignity.
Religious Data Studies
Faith, religious identity and digital profiling.
Neurodata Studies
Mental privacy, cognitive freedom and thought as data.
AI and Human Meaning
Human responsibility, risk and accountability in AI systems.
Law by Design
Legal compliance built into interfaces and workflows.
Picture This!
Visual privacy, consent and the semiotics of data protection
A project about how privacy law appears in images, icons, camera signs, QR codes and clickable consent rituals.
Open Picture This!
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Privacy Semiotic Hacking: a critical-semiotic analysis of hidden signs of digital consent
A critical semiotic analysis of how checkboxes, cookie banners and QR codes become visible signs of the legal fictions behind digital consent.