In Conversation
As chief privacy officer to the world’s largest independent provider of claims management to the risk management and insurance industry, Robert “Bob” Jett knows the importance of keeping customers’ data safe. GC asks him about the issues that should be keeping legal teams awake.
I have been working on data privacy since before it was a recognised area of law. When I started out, what is now understood as privacy was part of a company’s compliance programme and fell to its compliance officers. Of course, privacy still falls under compliance, but it has become a unique feature of the compliance programme.
To oversimplify things for the sake of making a point, privacy is just compliance with an IT flavour, and it is something I have been giving presentations on to boards of directors and executive management for over a decade.
