About the IAPP

Jonathan Cantor is Senior Vice President and Deputy Chief Privacy Officer at Truist, where he leads and helps develop Truist’s privacy policies and advisory and guidance. Jonathan advises Truist teammates on privacy policy, emerging issues, oversight, compliance, and strategy, and leverages his experiences integrating privacy protections into advanced technology into his current advisory portfolio. At Truist, Jonathan has held a key role in readying the organization for newly enacted and effective legislative requirements while helping develop privacy solutions for its 2021-2022 historic merger of equals integration. Before joining Truist, Jonathan was a dedicated public servant for his entire professional career, mostly as a senior executive guiding and developing others in privacy. Jonathan was most recently the Deputy, and often the Acting, Chief Privacy Officer for the Department of Homeland Security, and served as the principal advisor to the rest of the DHS leadership on privacy matters. At DHS, Jonathan developed deep experience integrating privacy protections into complex technologies and advanced analytics, data mining, facial recognition, biometrics, unmanned aircraft, and similar initiatives. Earlier in his career, Jonathan was the Chief Privacy Officer at the Department of Commerce, where he enjoyed the opportunity to help engage on the development of the Obama Administration’s Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights and held the lead privacy role at the Social Security Administration. Jonathan is a graduate of Duke University and the George Washington University National Law Center. He is an active IAPP member, and holds a CIPP/US and CIPP/G.