What Every Company Should Know About Privacy with Robin Andruss

In this episode, she discusses her background, how she got interested in privacy, privacy engineering, the responsibilities of a Chief Privacy Officer, and what every company needs to be thinking about when it comes to the ever changing privacy landscape.

Topics:

• What are the responsibilities of a chief privacy officer?
• How did you end up with an interest in working in the data privacy space? And what’s your work history in this space?
• What is privacy engineering?
• What is the typical background of someone that ends up working as a privacy engineer?
• Where does privacy engineering typically sit in an organization
• How does an engineering team typically work with the privacy function within an organization?
• People tend to lump security and privacy together, what’s the difference?
• If you were advising a startup today, what advice would you give them about how to navigate the ever changing privacy landscape?
• What should every company be thinking about when it comes to data privacy?
• Does every company need to hire a privacy specialist? If not, at what point does that make sense?
• What are the big gaps in data privacy today? What future technology or development are you excited about?
• Where should someone looking to learn more about the data privacy space begin?

Resources:

• Effective Privacy is Always Proactive
• NIST Framework
• CMU Privacy Engineering Programming
• Data Protocol Privacy Engineering Certificate Program
• IAPP Privacy. Security. Risk. 2022