Kelsey Farish
Kelsey Farish is a technology and media lawyer with a focus on digital identity, generative AI, and the legal implications of synthetic audiovisual content. Her work examines how emerging technologies shape (and reshape) our understanding of self, privacy, and representation.
Kelsey advises clients across the media and entertainment industries, from broadcasters and streamers to creators and brands, helping them navigate complex rights frameworks in a fast-changing technological landscape. With a background in both legal practice and cultural commentary, she connects the dots between regulation, storytelling, and the power structures behind how we’re seen - and how we see each other.
She is considered to be a leading legal expert on digital modification of the human form and in addition to her day job as a lawyer, she is a peer-reviewed academic who published one of the first papers on deepfakes in the context of publicity and performers’ rights in 2019. Most recently, she co-authored a chapter on influencer marketing and social media regulation in The Handbook of Fashion Law (Oxford University Press, 2024), exploring how platforms and advertising shape cultural norms around body image, truth, and digital modification.
Independent Consultant
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What happens to our data and privacy if AI-powered XR glasses become everyday wear? What happens to our perception of ourselves and others if we can each customise and augment our reality —or be augmented by others?
Our panel of lawyers, policy researchers and industry practitioners will examine the data infrastructures of global-scale spatial computing and ask: who will own YOUR reality?