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...
Category: Privacy/Cybersecurity
How to break into Privacy as a Career
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...
What did May 26 look like?
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 – not what you think it is
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...
“I have a quick question…..”
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...
Explaining “Privacy Attorney”
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...
Microwaves, wiretapping, and genetics
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 are like Washing Machines
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...
Do-Si-Do – dancing with privacy: Trump and Cybersecurity
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...
Lights! Camera! Privacy! wuuuut
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...