The Shifting Privacy Left Podcast

S2E25: "Anonymization & Deletion at Scale" with Engin Bozdag (Uber) & Stefano Bennati (HERE)

Aug 29, 2023

50:14

This week, we're chatting with Engin Bozdag, Senior Staff Privacy Architect at Uber, and Stefano Bennati, Privacy Engineer at HERE Technologies. Today, we explore their recent IWPE'23 talk, "Can Location Data Truly be Anonymized: a risk-based approach to location data anonymization" and discuss the technical & business challenges to obtain anonymization. We also discuss the role of Privacy Engineers, how to choose a career path, and the importance of embedding privacy into product development & DevPrivOps; collaborating with cross-functional teams; & staying up-to-date with emerging trends.

Topics Covered:

Common roadblocks privacy engineers face with anonymization techniques & how to overcome them
How to get budgets for anonymization tools; challenges with scaling & regulatory requirements & how to overcome them
What it means to be a 'Privacy Engineer' today; good career paths; and necessary skill sets
How third-party data deletion tools can be integrated into a company's distributed architecture
What Privacy Engineers should understand about vendor privacy requirements for LLMs before bringing them into their orgs
The need to monitor code changes in data or source code via code scanning; how HERE Technologies uses Privado to monitor the compliance of its products & data lineage; and how Privado detects new assets added to your inventory & any new API endpoints
Advice on how to deal with conflicts between engineering, legal & operations teams and hon how to get privacy issues fixed within an org
Strategies for addressing privacy issues within orgs, including collaboration, transparency, and continuous refinement

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