Carolyn Adams is a Senior Lecturer in the Law School at Macquarie University. She has three decades of experience working in the fields of administrative law, human rights and privacy in senior policy positions at federal, state and territory levels in Australia, at the Australian Law Reform Commission, and in academia. She has been a member of the Macquarie University Human Research Ethics Committee (Humanities and Social Sciences) since 2015. She was a member of the Population Health Research Network (PHRN) Ethics, Privacy and Consumer Engagement Advisory Group.