The Privacy Insider by WireWheel

Regulators from California, France, Australia, and points in between are increasingly requiring organizations to prove their comprehensive privacy programs are operationally effective and aligned with executive governance and accountability. This means corporate controls binding on even the most senior executives, investment across the organization, and real-time performance data.

Scott Taylor, VP Chief Privacy Officer at Merck, and Marty Abrams, Executive Director at the IAF have been exploring for two decades how to implement mature, comprehensive accountability programs. This session will show how it is done.

It’s no secret that fragmented state-by-state data privacy regulations have put companies in a spin trying to figure out how and where to focus their compliance energies. This panel will focus on where federal data privacy regulations are gaining traction: protecting children’s privacy, and what your organization should keep top of mind.

It’s one thing to have a pulse on state-by-state privacy legislation; it’s another to actually comply with the patchwork of laws. This session will focus on how you can prepare for these regulations in practice: what each state requires, what it means to actually opt-in and opt-out, and how you can build a connection with your customers.

Once upon a time, consent was almost as simple as “just” managing cookies. Today, organizations are mobilizing to figure out strategies for managing consent across multiple channels, brands, and devices, from phones to smart TVs to connected appliances. This discussion will focus on how companies can use consent as a way to build trust, collect more first-party data, and be confident in their regulatory compliance.

Are you considering the path to Chief Privacy Officer? Hear insights from data privacy executives at Ampersand and Stott and May to help you strategize your journey to CPO.

As privacy regulations proliferate, companies are looking at how privacy can become integral in the design of products and systems. Learn from privacy experts the methodologies, tools, and techniques to ensure that your company integrates privacy into its design process.

Several states have new privacy regulations taking effect in 2023. This discussion will focus on practical and actionable guidance to help companies prepare for and comply with new fragmented data privacy rules.

Building consent into your advertising program is an increasingly important consideration in today’s modern privacy-centric world — whether you’re managing one brand, several brands, or multiple brands and channels, this session will spell out best practices, offer operationalize guidance for upcoming regulations, and discuss trends and myths percolating throughout the industry.

Artificial intelligence is more than a buzzwordy trend — it comes with very nuanced real-world consequences and implications. This session will be an open discussion about how to think about high-risk processing in the context of artificial intelligence, from ethical concerns to practical regulatory considerations.