Nataliia Bielova

Nataliia Bielova is a Research Director in Computer Science at PRIVATICS team, Inria, with a focus on online privacy and GDPR compliance. She previously served as a Senior Privacy Fellow at the French Data Protection Authority (CNIL) (2021-2022).

• Current Role: External Expert for the EU Commission on the EU Digital Services Act implementation.
• Research Themes: Web Privacy Measurements, Dark Patterns in UX design, and GDPR Application to Emerging Web Technologies.

Her interdisciplinary work bridges computer science, law, and design, with a focus on ensuring user consent compliance and detecting privacy violations. She has developed tools like the ERNIE browser extension for cookie synchronization detection and contributed to regulatory actions (e.g., 3 CNIL complaints in 2019). Her recent article on dark patterns and CMP manipulation (PoPETs 2022) highlights unethical design choices in consent pop-ups.

Scientific Awards:

• CNIL-Inria Privacy Award 2025 (jury member)
• Rising Star award by Women at Privacy NGO (2023)
• Best of ACM CHI Honorable Mention (2021)
• ANR JCJC grant (2018-2022)

She actively contributes to policy debates through invited expert roles (EDPB Pool of Experts since 2023) and keynote presentations at major conferences (PETS 2024, ACM CHI 2024). Her work has been cited in OECD reports and EU Commission studies on dark patterns.