Whitney Merrill, CIPP/US, CIPM

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Asana

DPO, Lead Global Privacy Counsel

Whitney Merrill loves privacy and security... no really, she really loves it. To feed her insatiable need to advance data protection in the world, she is Asana's Data Protection Officer, heading up the privacy team responsible for the global privacy and data protection program, data governance, and compliance. Previously, she started the privacy team at Brex, a fintech startup, spent time at Electronic Arts (EA) as Privacy, eCommerce & Consumer Protection Counsel, and started her career as an attorney at the Federal Trade Commission. She has a master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign and was a member of the Illinois Security Lab where she explored issues associated with the intersection of technology, information security, privacy, and the law. She loves getting technical, especially as it relates to systems architecture and security, and will happily whiteboard with anyone willing. Previously, in her spare time, she founded and ran the Crypto (as in cryptography) & Privacy Village, a non-profit, which appears at hacker conferences like DEF CON & BSidesSF each year. You can find her tweeting about security, privacy, and other random things at @wbm312.

 

Contributions by Whitney Merrill

  • Privacy Violations in the Code: The Big Gaps in Privacy Programs
    Speaker at IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2023