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Privacy & Security Episodes

Xiaomeng Lu on China's Tech Crackdown
Oct. 26, 2021

Xiaomeng Lu on China's Tech Crackdown

Xiaomeng Lu is a Director in the Eurasia Group’s Geotechnology Practice, where she focuses on the interactions of emerging technologies with geopolitics, market dynamics, and regulatory norms. Before joining the Eurasia Group, she was the China Practice Lead at the consulting firm, Access Partnership, where she helped top US financial and cloud service providers enter China's market.
Guest: Xiaomeng Lu
Privacy and Pandemics with Washington Post's Cat Zakrzewski
April 21, 2020

Privacy and Pandemics with Washington Post's Cat Zakrzewski

Cat Zakrzewski is a technology policy reporter for the Washington Post and authors the technology 202 newsletter. She previously reported for the Wall Street Journal, Pro Venture Capital. Her work has been published in Tech Crunch, the Boston Globe, USA Today and the Chicago Sun Times.
MIT Sloan Professor Catherine Tucker on Privacy, Antitrust, and the Value of Data
Nov. 12, 2019

MIT Sloan Professor Catherine Tucker on Privacy, Antitrust, and the Value of Data

Catherine Tucker is the Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management and a Professor of Marketing at MIT Sloan. She is also Chair of the MIT Sloan PhD Program. Her research interests lie in how technology allows firms to use digital data and machine learning to improve performance, and in the challenges this poses for regulation. Tucker has particular expertise in online advertising, digital health, social media, and electronic privacy. Her research studies the interface between marketing, the ec...
BigID CEO Dimitri Sirota Brings Fresh Ideas to Privacy Debate
Oct. 9, 2019

BigID CEO Dimitri Sirota Brings Fresh Ideas to Privacy Debate

Dimitri Sirota is CEO and cofounder of BigID. Sirota is the CEO of one of the first enterprise privacy management platforms called BigID and a privacy and identity expert. He is an established serial entrepreneur, investor, mentor and strategist and previously founded two enterprise software companies focused on security and API management, Layer Seven technologies which was sold to CA Technologies in 2013.
The Costs and Benefits of Banning Huawei
May 20, 2019

The Costs and Benefits of Banning Huawei

TPI hosted a panel of experts on April 9, 2019 in Washington, D.C. to discuss technical concerns and the costs and benefits of banning Huawei from U.S. telecommunications markets. Experts from the National Defense University, George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School, Virginia Tech, the New America Foundation and Politico participated in the discussion.
Privacy Legislation in 2019? Maureen Ohlhausen and Alan Raul
March 1, 2019

Privacy Legislation in 2019? Maureen Ohlhausen and Alan Raul

Maureen Ohlhausen is currently Practice Group Chair and Partner of Antitrust and Competition Law at Baker Botts in Washington, D.C. Alan Raul is founder and lead partner of Sidley Austin's Privacy and Cybersecurity practice in Washington, D.C. We last saw you on a privacy panel we hosted at the National Press Club on January 16th, earlier this year. It's now late February 2019 and this week Congress is holding hearings on federal data privacy. Here's the big question: Will there be privacy legis...
Do Algorithms Rule the World? Data Privacy and the GDPR with Maja Brkan
March 8, 2018

Do Algorithms Rule the World? Data Privacy and the GDPR with Maja Brkan

Hello, and welcome to another episode of TPI’s podcast Two Think Minimum. I’m Chris McGurn TPI’s Director of Communications. This week, we're fortunate to be talking with Maja Brkan, who is an Assistant Professor in European Law on the faculty of law at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. Maja also has the distinction of being part of our AI conference which was held earlier this week. We will be discussing with her some of the issues that she covered and presented in her paper, which is e...
Guest: Maja Brkan