Farida Habib Semantha is a PhD researcher and currently working in the College of Engineering, IT and Environment, Charles Darwin University. She has wide array of research interest revolves around privacy by design, cyber security, data mining and ICT governance. Prior to join CDU as a researcher, she worked as an IT professional with Northern Territory Government. Farida Habib Semantha holds BSc (Hons) in Computing from University of Greenwich, UK and Master of IT (Software Engineering) from Charles Darwin University.