For the attorneys on here. What’s your end goal? To be Chief Privacy Officer? Or, to be General Counsel?

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Attorneys; to my experience so far; make terrible CPOs.

The more data the company processes; higher the technical complexity, controls, and possible harms.

Attorneys due to their training in legal risk struggle a lot with both technical knowledge, and the balance btw risk/innovation.

Recently, a Head of Compliance told me I knew too much data Governance to be their CPO!

Great technical CPOs are being squandered by lots of companies with opacity building in mind.

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Thanks for your words, they provide some much needed forgetting potion from my last time as a Privacy Specialist.

My Head of Privacy was an attorney and her approach to risk was just looking the other way.

Once, she told me “I don’t need to know anything about data”.

The company was a global InsurTech player…

Needless to say I got abused right and left…

My background was law too; but I worked a number of years in AI as a Product/Project Manager; and I have a good mind for technical areas

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Chief Privacy Officer.

For some reason my gut tells me I’d be a terrible GC being a privacy/product attorney.

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More specifically, the ones In-House.

What’s the pay difference between the roles? Which is more difficult to get (for lawyers)? I’m a govt attorney, so please excuse the ignorance.

I’m looking for a CPO job right now.
I’m an attorney, but also on the higher end of tech savviness and have a CISSP for example.

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