GovInfoSecurity

One Leader, Two Roles: The CISO-DPO Hybrid Model

A new hybrid leadership role is emerging that combines the technical rigor of a CISO with the legal acumen of a data ...
HealthTech

What Is a Data Protection Officer and Should You Have One?

What Is a Data Protection Officer (DPO)? A Data Protection Officer (DPO) is a professional who is responsible for overseeing a company's data protection strategy and ensuring that it complies with ...
Government Technology

State Chief Data Officers Are Central to IT Governance

A new report from the National Association of State Chief Information Officers examines the role of state chief data officer ...
Harvard Business Review

8 Strategies for Chief Data Officers to Create — and Demonstrate — Value

The chief data officer (CDO) role was only established in 2002, but it has grown enormously since then. In one recent survey of large companies, 83% reported having a CDO. This isn’t surprising: Data ...
GovCon Wire

Travis Hite Takes on Chief Data Officer Role at Astrion

Travis Hite's appointment as Astrion's chief data officer comes as the company advances a unified approach to data and ...
UNHCR

Data protection

UNHCR’s General Policy on Personal Data Protection and Privacy (GDPP) brings the Agency’s longstanding human rights-based approach to data protection and privacy ...
San Francisco Fed

The Role of Individuals in the Data Ecosystem: Current debates and considerations for individual data protection and data rights in the U.S.

We are living in a time of immense technological change, driven in part by our ability to capture data, convert it into new information, and use that information to inform decision-making, automate ...
TechCrunch

After key privacy and security departures last week, Twitter names ‘acting DPO’

Following a flurry of resignations of senior Twitter privacy and security staffers late last week, the social media firm has informed its lead data protection regulator in the European Union that it ...