A new Data Localisation Suite, GDPR FAQs, and a new Cloudflare Trust Hub were just a few of the deliverables that came from this team’s work. This included addressing many of the EU GDPR-related questions our customers were raising regarding the explanation of data flows, our supplemental measures in light of the Schrems II decision, and how Cloudflare’s services help our customers comply with data protection laws. I am especially proud of working cross-functionally with our legal, policy, security, sales, marketing, product, and engineering teams.

The businesses that rely on Cloudflare have had to navigate an ever-evolving privacy landscape in the past several years. What is the single thing about Cloudflare that you are proudest of (privacy-wise)? The common thread through all my roles has been a core interest in protecting the privacy of people’s data online–and that is also what inspired me to join Cloudflare. And before joining Yahoo!, I was an associate at Steptoe & Johnson and Covington & Burling. Prior to Evernote, I was a Senior Legal Director at Yahoo! overseeing law enforcement data disclosures, cross-border data transfer, and child protection matters. In that role, I focused on data disclosures and privacy matters and headed the legal team. What roles have you fulfilled before becoming a DPO?īefore joining Cloudflare as its first DPO in 2018, I was VP of Legal at Evernote. It’s so rewarding to be at a company where we make products that actually have a measurable impact on people’s privacy, like our 1.1.1.1 public DNS resolver, investing in Oblivious DoH (DNS over HTTPS), and investing in privacy-first analytics that don’t rely on tracking end users. I am excited to be surrounded by an entire company of smart people who understand that privacy and compliance are core to Cloudflare’s mission to help build a better Internet.

There are always new challenges in the privacy space - whether it’s a new regulation (there is no shortage of those!), an issue a customer has raised, or an internal compliance task we’re working on. What do you look forward to most about going to work every day? What gets you excited? From implementing up-to-date privacy practices across the organization to handling a high number of data subject requests, a DPO has to overcome many challenges to succeed.

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