https://www.canadianlawyermag.com/author/elizabeth-thompson/data-compliance-goes-global-17408/
By Elizabeth Thompson
Canadian Lawyer
June 24, 2019
As in-house counsel for Shopify, Vivek Narayanadas has to navigate a
constantly changing landscape when it comes to privacy and data protection
laws around the world.
The secret, he says, is to look to the future.
“Being a privacy professional, especially right now, is part fortune
teller, part crystal ball teller,” says Narayanadas, associate general
counsel privacy and data protection officer for one of Canada’s
fastest-growing e-commerce companies.
“You just have to have a finger on the pulse — not only of what the law
says now. You really have to have a sense of where it’s going because your
product teams don’t really appreciate having to revisit decisions that you
made six months ago just because a new law just came into effect.”
In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal and Europe’s adoption of
the General Data Protection Regulation, privacy and data protection laws
around the world have been multiplying at a dizzying rate — many of them
with extraterritorial applications and all with somewhat different
provisions.
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