Global privacy practitioners gather in Washington

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🗓️ 14 March 2018

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

As the world awaits for Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation, the GDPR, to go into effect in May, this year’s IAPP Global Privacy Summit is expected to draw more than 3,300 delegates – a 30 percent increase over the past two years. Attendees will come from more than 30 countries, a list running from Afghanistan to Uruguay. The event is the world’s largest annual gathering of regulators and privacy and data security lawyers. Regulators from Europe and the rest of the world will be particularly prominent this year, as the Trump administration’s slow pace of nominations to the US Federal Trade Commission mean no new FTC commissioners been confirmed by the US Senate. That has left a dearth of US privacy and data security regulators for the summit, and may allow a bigger role for regulators from Europe, Canada and other jurisdictions.

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to another M-lex podcast. My name's James Panicki. I'm M-Lex's managing editor for Australasia, and I'm speaking to you from our offices in Melbourne, Australia. Today we're breaking
0:22.1	with tradition to talk not about a story we have just covered, but about something we're
0:27.4	about to cover. The International Association of Privacy Professionals, and I'll be referring to them
0:33.1	with the acronym IAPP, is a global not-for-profit organization based in the US and it's designed to
0:39.9	support the work of privacy professionals around the world. The IAPP organizes a global privacy
0:46.2	summit which sees data protection professionals come together from around the world for an
0:52.2	exchange of views and also to reflect on the evolving regulatory
0:56.6	landscape that they face. The Global Privacy Summit will be taking place on March the 27th to
1:03.1	the 28th in Washington, D.C., and it's clearly a big deal for Emlex's privacy coverage, which is why
1:10.0	I'm crossing the dateline today to touch base with Mike Swift, Mlex's privacy coverage, which is why I'm crossing the dateline today to touch base
1:12.7	with Mike Swift, Mlex's chief global digital risk correspondent, and he's based in San Francisco.
1:18.6	Hello, Mike.
1:19.5	Hello, James.
1:20.5	Now, Mike, remind me why we care so much about the IAPP Global Privacy Summit.
1:26.1	Why do we cover it so closely?
1:28.1	Well, I mean, it's really the largest annual gathering of the world's leading privacy practitioners,
1:34.6	where it's the one place where you have regulators mixing with lawyers,
1:39.8	mixing with officials for companies.
1:42.5	And so there's a lot of ferment that goes on. There's a lot of ferment that goes on.
1:46.0	There's a lot of networking that goes on, a lot of connections that get made.
1:50.0	So it's something that we cover as a very important news event,
1:55.0	because often very interesting policy statements are made in the privacy arena at the conference.
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