Cybersecurity and Privacy
There is a common tension between cybersecurity and privacy in that historically, many security professionals have scoffed at the idea of privacy. “If you lock it up, privacy doesn’t matter.” Not true. All security...
k royal, PhD, JD
There is a common tension between cybersecurity and privacy in that historically, many security professionals have scoffed at the idea of privacy. “If you lock it up, privacy doesn’t matter.” Not true. All security...
This topic seems to be more important than ever given the global demand (okay, mainly the European demand) for experienced privacy professionals. But how do you get experience if no one will hire you...
A week or so ago, I spoke at the Governance of Emerging Technologies & Science (GETS): Law, Policy and Ethics at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University on – GDPR:...
HIPAA (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 along with its subsequent amendments) was never intended to interfere with patient care. It was about insurance – it is not the Health Information...
The conversation starts with …. I have a quick question..It’s never quick to ask or quick to answer – especially when to really answer the question, more information is required. I should never say...
People often ask me what I do as an attorney (disclaimer….I do not take clients, I work for a company). When I say I’,m a privacy attorney, the reactions range from polite confusion to...
Thanks to a friend and colleague, Prof. Gary Marchant at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at ASU, I was invited to join Gary and Caroline Lynch to speak with 3TV’s Politics Unplugged’s Dennis...
Privacy Officers (whether attorneys or non-attorneys) are a lot like washing machines. Aside from the obvious resemblance that we handle dirty laundry, let’s consider some of the other similarities. If there is no agitation...
During the current U.S. president’s administration, we have seen a tremendous effort in protecting digital assets and cybersecurity. Industry experts tend to feel that although the initiatives do not take us as far as...
What?? Movies about privacy? I mean, cutting edge, action-packed, thriller movies about privacy! Not since the Alfred Hitchcock horror classic Psycho where the poor girl’s privacy was blown to bits (or stabbed to bits) has...