Ep 71: Privacy, Facial Recognition, and Semi-Pro Football with DPO Paul Collier

What does a Data Protection Officer do? How is it different from your privacy counsel? And how might a DPO help your company with cutting-edge issues like regulations around facial recognition or biometrics?

Join Paul Collier, data protection officer at The DPO Centre, as he shares how the skills he gained as a front-line police officer have helped him counsel clients on how to balance complex privacy regulations with business goals.

Listen as Paul discusses how companies can use facial recognition technology while safeguarding privacy, how in-house legal departments can work best with DPOs, his side hustle as a part-time semi-professional football referee, and much more.

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Topics:

Introduction: 0:00
Working as a front-line police officer: 2:00
What does a Data Protection Officer do?: 6:06
Considerations when hiring a DPO: 9:26
Counseling companies on facial recognition: 11:33
Should governments regulate facial recognition technology?: 16:00
How DPOs manage expectations with resistant clients: 20:36
How DPOs can work effectively with legal departments: 23:49
Becoming a semi-professional football referee: 25:23
Rapid-fire questions: 30:06
Book recommendations: 32:13
What Paul wishes he’d known as a young lawyer: 33:33

Connect with us:
Paul Collier - https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-collier-a2121056/
Tyler Finn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tylerhfinn
SpotDraft - https://www.linkedin.com/company/spotdraft

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