Summary of: “Responding to GDPR and preparing for what comes next!” held on Friday, April 27, 2018 from 8 to 10 AM.
We have all heard the statement: "Privacy is dead; the Internet killed privacy; Get over it!".
However, recently, Privacy concerns have been grabbing headlines:
Is the tide turning? How do we prepare for GDPR? Is this the first sign of a different future?
We had two presenters lead this discussion:
GDPR: What You Should Know and Start Doing Now
Justin Antonipillai, CEO, WireWheel.io helped us learn more about how the GDPR will affect your business, what we need to know, and major phases and activities we want to prepare for compliance, all in the broader context of Enterprise Date Protection Compliance.
GDPR: Seeds of a Different Future?
Dr. Amy Zalman, Global Security Futurist and Founder, Strategic Narrative Institute helped us evaluate if GDPR contains potential seeds of deep global changes afoot, and of the emerging contests between nation-states, corporations and citizens/ consumers for relative power over their own destinies. With its blanket stipulation that all firms—regardless of their territorial headquarters or location—are responsible for protecting EU residents’ private data, the EU Parliament acknowledges how deeply globalization and technology have eroded the meaning of territorial boundaries accepted since the Treaty of Westphalia, and shifted sovereign power into the hands of individuals themselves.
Amy proposed that current trends in technology regulation, including the GDPR, net neutrality and emerging areas such as wearables and HIPAA, reflect the early stage of paradigmatic shifts in how our world may be organized in the centuries to come.
Justin's Bio: Justin most recently served as Acting Under Secretary for Economic Affairs at the US Department of Commerce during the Obama Administration. From 2013 to 2017, he led the U.S. Negotiating Team with Europe on data privacy issues like GDPR, including in negotiating the EU-US Privacy Shield, which thousands of companies use to transfer data between the EU and US. He also led similar digital trade issues in Asia, and domestic privacy issues in the US. For the prior decade, Justin was a partner in the private equity practice of Arnold & Porter LLP. In 2016, Director James Clapper recognized Justin with the National Intelligence Medallion.
Amy's Bio: Dr. Amy Zalman founded the Strategic Narrative Institute in 2016 to help companies and government agencies anticipate and prepare for the future. Her clients include Fortune 500 firms, associations and federal government clients. She is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Culture, Communications & Technology at Georgetown University. She previously served as the CEO and President of the World Future Society, a global membership organization for futurists, and as the Chair of Information Integration at the National War College in Washington DC. Her Ph.D. is from the Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University.