In this episode, I interview Mert Can Boyar,  Director of Privacy Innovation Lab at Bilgi University and Founder of privacy tech company, Verilogy. Mert walks us through his creative approach to educating on core privacy engineering concepts, particularly through the lens of storytelling, visual art & music. He also shares his vision & mission behind his passion project, “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Privacy Engineering."

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Mert tells his "origin story" and dives into how he ended up in privacy and data protection. He highlights the thread of art & entrepreneurship throughout his career, which has taken him from musician to lawyer to start-up founder, and now educator. 

Privacy Innovation Lab is a multi-stakeholder hub for privacy innovation. Mert highlights exciting projects that his students are working on, including an assessment tool to help practitioners build fair & lawful AI models and new tech in the self-sovereign identity (SSI) space. 

While working at the lab, Mert came up with a “creative privacy" strategy, which he uses to inspire young minds about privacy engineering. In this episode, he takes us behind-the-scenes of his comic book project that’s meant to educate people who want to understand how modern software and data processing technologies function. 

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Topics Covered:

• What initially sparked Mert’s interest in data and privacy protection 
• How Mert uses his multifaceted & creative skillsets to bridge knowledge gaps between privacy law & engineering
• Verilogy’s open source database tool that automates and streamlines the work that Mert was doing as a privacy lawyer 
• Fascinating projects underway at Privacy Innovation Lab 
• What Mert hopes to achieve with The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Privacy Engineering

Resources Mentioned:

• Learn more about Privacy Innovation Lab
• Subscribe on LinkedIn to The Hitchhiker's Guide to Privacy Engineering
• Read about Verilogy 

Guest Info:

• Follow Mert on LinkedIn 
• Contact Mert at Privacy Innovation Lab:  [email protected]

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