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I'm deeply honored to be this year's
recipient of the IEEE apt privacy
Vanguard Award I know there are so many
privacy professionals out there doing
amazingly innovative work so to be
recognized in this way by a group of my
peers is extremely humbling
my career in privacy began about 17
years ago when I moved to New York to
become a privacy consultant at PwC I was
mainly working on internet-based
projects at that time I'm very
interested in the intersection between
policy and technology and I soon took a
leap into the technology industry to
leave watchfires privacy technology
business in 2004 I was lucky enough to
be offered a job to join Microsoft's
privacy team and I became the chief
privacy officer in 2010 in one respect
Microsoft's privacy strategy is
evergreen to build and maintain customer
and stakeholder trust regarding data use
but what has changed significantly is
the landscape in which we apply that
principle our mission is to empower
every person in every organization on
the planet to achieve more and as we do
that we're increasingly building
intelligence into everything we offer
not only that Microsoft is playing a
significant role in a broader digital
transformation that's occurring across
all industries as we do that we take
many steps to ensure privacy principles
are upheld empowering people and
organizations to make meaningful choices
embracing strong accountability and
security practices helping our customers
comply with new regulations like the
gdpr
and actively taking a strong stand for
our customers privacy rights
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to the extent I've been successful in my
career today I would say it's by being
curious and learning from others
I've always tended to focus on what's
next striving to learn and understand
technology shifts changes in data use
and the evolving regulatory landscape
I've also been lucky to be surrounded by
great people to learn from throughout my
career managers and peers and the
various roles they've had and a wide
range of other influences across
industry that I've been able to tap into
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to stay current in such a dynamic
profession like privacy I take advantage
of the wide range of information
available today including great
resources available from the ITP they
also spend time engaging in discussions
and forums outside the company with
regulators with think tanks with
customers civil society and the like and
take a step back it seems clear that the
privacy professions transforming to
embrace the new realities of this
data-driven world
privacy professionals will increasingly
be called upon to broaden the scope of
their impact in enabling valuable and
ethical use of data while ensuring
societal rights and freedoms are upheld
it's an exciting time to be in the
profession and once again I'm deeply
honored to receive this recognition from
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