What does your day to day look like as a privacy attorney in house?

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My typical day to day:

-Check news for developments - analyzing if any impact to business units

-Litigation matters right now (unfortunately) so spend time working on strategy with outside counsel, gathering information for them.

-Regular meetings with stakeholders in product, tech, security, marketing/advertising - I like to check in with them every other week, let them know what’s going on on my end that they may need to operationalize, see what they’re thinking about and if I can get ahead of it or provide any advice to them as early as possible

-Any privacy/security/ai contractual terms that need to be reviewed in various agreements to assure no funky positions or obligations

-AI counseling

-Infosec counseling

-Product counseling

-General privacy counseling, including the beast that is ad tech

-Consumer protection/marketing counseling


Other non-typical day to day items on my to-do list for Q3/Q4:

-data strategy/landscape revision

-annual review of our entire information security policy suite - so many revisions this year.

-develop data classification policy and strategy

-finalize and rollout data retention guidance and schedule

-get funding for data mapping for the markets I support (we have one in the EU already, just need ROW)

-further development of our global AI governance framework and AI training with my counterparts in the EU

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Infosec Policies, data breaches (both internal and 3rd party notifications) , negotiating security terms, reviewing vendor security documentation/responses to our security questionnaires prior to approving onboarding.

Not much but varies I think depending on company/type of business.

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News (enforcement, regulation, guidance) following and determining impact to our business; meeting with BUs; PIA, DPA review. Any cert. the company is working on

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Every company I worked at as privacy counsel has been different

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Having major imposter syndrome still. I feel like the minute I finally have a grasp, something changes. The law and nuances just seem overwhelming. Maybe it’s just a lack of guidance/uniformity in the US. I’m not sure if I feel this way because it is simply the nature of the work or because I’m just not capable.
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