Tonya Riley reports:
Julie Brill, as Microsoft Corp.‘s outgoing chief privacy officer and a longtime federal regulator, has seen privacy compliance from the perspective of both regulator and regulated.
Chief privacy officers, she says, are needed more than ever to educate those on both sides in a climate of regulatory uncertainty and fast-evolving technology.
“Recognize that you’re in an organization that is dealing with a lot of complexity right now and a lot of issues,” Brill, who is retiring from Microsoft’s C-suite next month, said in interview with Bloomberg Law. CPOs want to work with the rest of the executive team “to help them understand how data governance will enable them to do the things they want to do to build out their business and have a more trusted business.”
Part of that is liaising with regulators to help them understand the business.
Read more on Bloomberg Law.