About the IAPP

Lydia de la Torre is a dual-qualified attorney (US/EU) and Golden Data Law's founding partner. Lydia teaches privacy, data protection, and A.I. courses at U.C. Davis Law and serves on the board of the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA.)

Lydia is the founding partner of the teaching law firm Golden Data Law (GDL). GDL serves clients in the not-for-profit sector, and its mission is to mentor a diverse and inclusive group of law students and recent grads so that they can grow into solid ethical professionals. Prior to founding GDL, Lydia served as an of-counsel to Squire Patton Boggs and had in-house counsel roles at several multinational organizations. 

Lydia teaches privacy, data protection, and A.I. courses at UC Davis Law and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings). She is an associated researcher at the UC Davis Center for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Research (CeDAR.) 

Prof. de la Torre was appointed to the CPPA Board by the California Senate President pro Tempore Toni G. Atkins in March 2021 and served on the Advisory Board of Californians for Consumer Privacy (CPPA) during the Prop 24 ballot campaign. The CPPA is a California state government agency created by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (CPRA) as the first dedicated privacy regulator in the United States. As an international expert in data protection issues, she brings unique experience-based knowledge to the CPPA Board.

Lydia started her career working for the local law firm Garrigues as a corporate and tax attorney. After obtaining her L.L.M. at Santa Clara University School of Law in I.P., she gained valuable experience working in the privacy law departments at several pre-IPO and multinational tech organizations and as Of Counsel at Squire Patton Boggs.