Thilla Rajaretnam
Associate Lecturer in Law
LLB (Hons) (Lond.), CLP (Malaysia), LLM (UWS)
Biography
Thilla Rajaretnam is an Associate Lecturer with the School of Law. She coordinates and teaches Commercial Law (PG) and teaches Introduction to Business Law.
Thilla is a researcher in information privacy and data security issues and regulation. She has submitted her PhD thesis entitled, ‘The Regulation of Information Privacy Protection in Electronic Commerce (E-commerce) in Australia’.
Prior to commencing her academic career, she was a Legal Practitioner in Malaysia. Thilla was admitted as a Legal Practitioner in the High Court of Malaya, Malaysia in 2000 and in the Supreme Court of New South Wales, Australia in 2004.
Learning & Teaching Interests
Business Law
Corporate Law
Banking and Financial Transactions Law
Corporate Governance
Research Interests
Information privacy and Data security
Regulation
Corporate governance
Publications
Articles
2012
· Thilla Rajaretnam, The Right to Consent and Control Personal Information Processing in Cyberspace, International Journal of Cyber-Security and Digital Forensics (IJCSDF) 1(3): 232-240, The Society of Digital Information and Wireless Communications (SDIWC) Nov. 2012 (ISSN: 2305-0012).
· Thilla Rajaretnam, The Problem to Consent to the Collection, Use, and Disclosure of Personal Information in Cyberspace, International Journal of Cyber-Security and Digital Forensics (IJCSDF) 1(3): 241-247, The Society of Digital Information and Wireless Communications (SDIWC) Nov. 2012 (ISSN: 2305-0012).
Conferences
2012
· Thilla Rajaretnam, ‘The Problem to Consent to the Collection, Use and Disclosure of Personal Information in Cyberspace, International Conference on Cyber Security, Cyber-Warfare and Digital Forensic, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University Putra Malaysia, Malaysia, 26-28 June 2012, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
2011
· Thilla Rajaretnam, ‘Online Trading Practices: The Benefits and Problems for Internet Users’, Athens Institute for Education and Research, 8th Annual International Conference on Law, 18-21 July 2011, Athens, Greece.
· Thilla Rajaretnam, ‘Measuring the Effectiveness of Information Privacy Laws in Australia: Has the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) effectively protected e-commerce users against the privacy invasive activities of data collectors?’ University of Sydney, 2011 Sydney Law School Postgraduate Conference, 27-28 October, Sydney, NSW
Seminars
2011
· Thilla Rajaretnam, ‘Has Industry Regulation for Information Privacy Protection in E-Commerce Been More or Least Effective than Statutory Regulation’, UWS School of Law Seminar Series, 2 November 2011.
2009
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Thilla Rajaretnam, ‘Protecting Privacy in Online Trading’ University of Western Sydney Postgraduate Colloquium, 4 November 2009.
· Thilla Rajaretnam, ‘The Networks know where you’ve been and what you do: The implications of ‘Behaviour-tracking Ad Systems’, Massey University, School of Accountancy Seminar Series, 9 July 2009.
2008
· Thilla Rajaretnam, ‘The Impact of Online Behavioural Advertising on Online Information Privacy’, Massey University, School of Accountancy Seminar Series, Palmerston North, New Zealand, July 2008.
2006
· Thilla Rajaretnam, ‘The Regulation of Privacy, Security, and Cost in relation to Electronic Commerce and Mobile Commerce’ Massey University, School of Accountancy Seminar Series, 19 November 2006, Palmerston North, New Zealand.
