Highlights of IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2018

  This is a round-up of the global IAPP Summit that takes place in Washington DC every year near Easter. It is a massive event, with over 3500 people moving over 4 floors plus an exhibition hall. There were more than 30 sessions (with many sessions running consecutively), plus 5 key notes. The sessions covered topics including blockchain, data scraping, GDPR compliance, data breach notification and response, Privacy Shield, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Smart Cities, Big Data, online reputation. The Summit took place against the backdrop of another turbulent week in US politics including the Stormy Daniels interview and the student ‘no guns in schools’ march on the Capitol, as well as the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica revelations and Mark Zuckerberg’s interview acknowledging that Facebook breached its users’ trust. The keynote speakers Monica Lewinsky, Simon Schama and Jon Ronson gave a fresh take on privacy from a personal, research and historical perspective respectively […]