Jay Cline, CIPP/US
Jay is a principal in PwC’s Data Risk & Privacy practice and coordinates PwC’s global data protection and privacy consulting team. With over 25 years of experience in consulting, in-house, and government roles and an academic background in economics, he brings a multi-disciplinary perspective to his clients. His projects have spanned all major regions, sectors, and privacy and security regulations and standards, serving a quarter of the US Fortune 500. He has personally completed or overseen dozens of program assessments, strategies, and incident responses, and hundreds of data-inventory interviews, privacy impact assessments, and third-party risk assessments.
Jay is a Certified Information Privacy Professional, has held leadership positions in the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), and is a frequent contributor to leading industry publications and major media channels where he is known for a quantitative and practical emphasis. He was the winner of the Barbara Wellbery Memorial Award for his proposal for an international Safe Harbor agreement and the IAPP-HP Privacy Innovation Award for his unique Privacy Maturity Model.
Contributions by Jay Cline
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Intersection of Data Protection Impact Assessments with AI and Everything Else
Speaker at IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2025 -
Demystifying AI risk: Risk tiering in regulated and non-regulated industries
Web Conference Speaker -
Mastering Privacy Impact Assessments: Achieving Comprehensive Compliance
Speaker at IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2024 -
Is It Magic? Can Privacy and AI Technology Truly Drive Efficiency?
Speaker at IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2023 -
Privacy pro compensation trends 2002-2022
Privacy Perspectives -
Data Protection Impact Assessments: The Full Picture
Speaker at IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2023 -
Know Before You Go: Which privacy laws may apply to your operations in the U.S. and Canada
Speaker at Virtual New Jersey and Ottawa KnowledgeNet: October 20, 2022 -
One Year of China’s PIPL — Key Developments and Major Impacts for Businesses
Speaker at IAPP Privacy. Security. Risk. 2022 -
What is ESG: What data privacy practitioners need to know and why
Speaker at Virtual Charlotte KnowledgeNet: September 29, 2022 -
Operationalizing Schrems and PIPL Data Transfer Assessments
Speaker at Virtual Charlotte KnowledgeNet: December 9, 2021 - Web Conference Speaker
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COVID-19: Employment Privacy and Security Issues
Speaker at Virtual Charlotte KnowledgeNet: April 1, 2020 -
Why companies are now prioritizing privacy for their consumers
Privacy Perspectives