Masters of Privacy

Attorney Heidi Saas (CIPP/US) has over twenty years of experience in consumer rights, eight years in data privacy, and five years of ethical AI and governance experience. Her projects currently involve working with CEOs, CTOs, CISOs, DPOs, and CMOs of companies in various industries on regulatory strategy, privacy program designs, risk management, implementation, and monetization of data assets within their privacy ecosystems. She also works with businesses to provide ethical AI advisory, and pre-audit consulting services, as well as regulatory compliance, legal consulting, and public speaking events.
References:
*What is a “data broker” under California law (CCPA as amended by CPRA)? A business that knowingly collects and sells the personal information of consumers with whom it does not have a direct relationship (thresholds: $25m revenue, 100k+ consumers/households, 50% of revenue originating from such selling or sharing of personal info).
* Heidi Saas on LinkedIn
* Tom Kemp (CalPrivacy): on the SECURE Data Act, CCPA whistleblowers, DROP, and AB 566 (Masters of Privacy, May 2026)
* Build a privacy program on TODO.LAW (DPO Central)
* Upcoming CIPT at DPO School (October 19th-20th, 2026)
* Heidi Saas: AI compliance for MarTech vendors and data controllers (Masters of Privacy, September 2024).


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Aleksandr Tiulkanov has advised businesses on legal and compliance matters since 2003 and has focused on IT law and digital policy since 2015. He has previously been a Special Adviser on Digital Development at the Council of Europe; as well as Senior Manager for Technology, Media and Telecoms at Deloitte Legal.
Aleksandr is also a Member of the AFNOR CN IA (French Commission on AI Standardisation), as well as a Member of the CEN-CENELEC JTC 21 (Artificial Intelligence), and a PECB Certified ISO/IEC 42001 Lead Implementer.
He also holds an LL.M. in Innovation, Technology and the Law, University of Edinburgh (2018) and has been listed in “Best Lawyers in Information Technology Law (2020)”
References:
Aleksandr Tiulkanov on LinkedIn
Engagements and training by Aleksandr Tiulkanov
Preparing for the EU AI Act, a 4-week course by Aleksandr Tiulkanov (code for a 10% discount: MOPPTL2)
Paragraphs 1-4 of Article 50 of the EU AI Act: Transparency obligations for providers and deployers of certain AI systems
* Providers shall ensure that AI systems intended to interact directly with natural persons are designed and developed in such a way that the natural persons concerned are informed that they are interacting with an AI systems, unless this is obvious from the point of view of a natural person who is reasonably well-informed, observant and circumspect, taking into account the circumstances and the context of use. This obligation shall not apply to AI systems authorised by law to detect, prevent, investigate or prosecute criminal offences, subject to appropriate safeguards for the rights and freedoms of third parties, unless those systems are available for the public to report a criminal offence.
* Providers of AI systems, including general-purpose AI systems, generating synthetic audio, image, video or text content, shall ensure that the outputs of the AI systems are marked in a machine-readable format and detectable as artificially generated or manipulated. Providers shall ensure their technical solutions are effective, interoperable, robust and reliable as far as this is technically feasible, taking into account the specificities and limitations of various types of content, the costs of implementation and the generally acknowledged state of the art, as may be reflected in relevant technical standards. This obligation shall not apply to the extent the AI systems perform an assistive function for standard editing or do not substantially alter the input data provided by the deployer or the semantics thereof, or where authorised by law to detect, prevent, investigate or prosecute criminal offences.
* Deployers of an emotion recognition system or a biometric categorisation system shall inform the natural persons exposed thereto of the operation of the system, and shall process the personal data in accordance with Regulations (EU) 2016/679 and (EU) 2018/1725 and Directive (EU) 2016/680, as applicable. This obligation shall not apply to AI systems used for biometric categorisation and emotion recognition, which are permitted by law to detect, prevent or investigate criminal offences, subject to appropriate safeguards for the rights and freedoms of third parties, and in accordance with Union law.
* Deployers of an AI system that generates or manipulates image, audio or video content constituting a deep fake, shall disclose that the content has been artificially generated or manipulated. This obligation shall not apply where the use is authorised by law to detect, prevent, investigate or prosecute criminal offence. Where the content forms part of an evidently artistic, creative, satirical, fictional or analogous work or programme, the transparency obligations set out in this paragraph are limited to disclosure of the existence of such generated or manipulated content in an appropriate manner that does not hamper the display or enjoyment of the work.
Deployers of an AI system that generates or manipulates text which is published with the purpose of informing the public on matters of public interest shall disclose that the text has been artificially generated or manipulated. This obligation shall not apply where the use is authorised by law to detect, prevent, investigate or prosecute criminal offences or where the AI-generated content has undergone a process of human review or editorial control and where a natural or legal person holds editorial responsibility for the publication of the content.


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Daniel “Dazza” Greenwood is the founder of CIVICS.com, a boutique provider of professional consultancy services for legal technologies, automated transactions, privacy and data management, and technology strategy. Dazza is also a researcher at MIT Media Lab and Lecturer at MIT Connection Science where he has been advancing the field of computational law and generative AI for law as Executive Director of law.MIT.edu.
Our guest serves as lead on the Data Rights Protocol initiative through Consumer Reports Digital Lab. This protocol provides a common open specification for enabling consumers and companies to process the exercise of individual data rights as a consumer-connected digital service.
Dazza Greenwood consults to Fortune 100 companies, architecting and building integrated business, legal and technology cross-boundary networks at industry scale. As an attorney, he served as both in-house and special counsel for technology law, representing corporations and governments. He has also testified before the US House, US Senate and other legislatures on electronic transactions law and consults extensively to the public sector.
References:
* Dazza Greenwood on LinkedIn
* Dazza Greenwood’s Substack
* CIVICS.com
* Data Rights Protocol: Standardizing consumers’ data rights requests (Consumer Reports)
* Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (1999)
* Authority Boundaries for AI (Dazza Greenwood, May 2026)
* LQAI from LegalQuants on Github (open source platform for law firms)
* Thirteen Words Shape Legal AI (Dazza Greenwood, September 2026)
* MIT Computational Law Report - Now part of Stanford Law School
* HOPE Lab, Hands-On Projects and Experimentation: Learn to work with agents across multiple stages, with clear goals, boundaries, and evidence of what worked.
* Interlateral (“Bring your own agent”), run by Dazza Greenwood: A space where people and their AI agents meet, coordinate, and build together over the web.
* Jamie Smith: AI Agents, digital identity, wallets and personal data (Masters of Privacy, December 2024).


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Shannon Yavorsky is a Global Co-Chair of Orrick’s Cyber, Privacy & Data Innovation group and co-head of its AI practice. She advises leading companies on privacy, cybersecurity and AI regulation, governance, transactions and strategic risk management, helping clients translate fast-moving legal requirements into practical, business-focused solutions.
References:
* Shannon Yavorsky on LinkedIn
* Shannon Yavorsky at Orrick
* AI governance frameworks, comparison and overlaps (AI Sentinel docs): Thirteen widely used AI governance frameworks, including AIUC-1, AI Act, NIST, ISO, California ADMT, and more. Compared across fourteen dimensions.


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How should we approach a Data Protection Impact Assessment or Privacy Impact Assessment in this new world? Are we recycling “mitigation measures” shamelessly? Are we drowning in futile DPIAs that were never really required?
Julian Gage is a fractional DPO and the founder of Engage Compliance. He has acted as an external DPO and EU representative for over 100 companies including Coinbase and Robinhood, as well as plenty of startups.
References:
* DPO Central: build a DPIA
* TODO.LAW: Run it your way
* Julian Gage on LinkedIn
* Engage Compliance
* EDPB: Template for a Data Protection Impact Assessment
* Nick Baskett: Mastering DPIAs (Masters of Privacy, July 2023)


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