Georgetown Symposium on Data Privacy: Engineering Solutions for Evolving Global Policy
Date: February 9, 2023
Time: 9:30 AM-12:15 PM EST
There is no global standard for how to engineer and implement data privacy policy. In the absence of harmonized transnational regulation, data companies are the de facto data privacy standard-bearers, in effect charged with designing and implementing data privacy policy at global scale while avoiding conflicts with other law and policy imperatives. This implementation requires engineering solutions that respond to widely varying privacy policy mandates globally.
This challenge sits at the intersection of policy and engineering and have a dramatic impact on our economy, our personal lives, our technology, and our ability to govern effectively. While there are many discussions about both the policy changes required and the engineering solutions that are possible, these conversations are too often convened in isolation. To fill this gap, we are convening a symposium of implementers: legal and policy privacy experts whose responsibility it is to craft and interpret data privacy regulations and the lead engineers tasked with designing and building data systems that meet those regulations.
Panel: Engineering solution toolkits – what has worked in other areas, what are frameworks for what could work?
- Marc Crandall, Google Cloud
- Kobbi Nissim, Georgetown University
- Alissa Cooper, Cisco
- Mallory Knodel, Center for Democracy and Technology
Moderator: Pamela Peele, Fmr UPMC Health