About the IAPP

Professor de la Torre started working in Data Protection in 1997 and she has extended experience in both the European Union and U.S. data protection law. She joined Santa Clara in 2017 as the inaugural privacy fellow. She has worked as senior counsel at a major Spanish Law Firm (Garrigues) and as privacy counsel/consultant in the private sector for Fortune 500 companies such as eBay, PayPal, Intuit and HP.


Professor de la Torre areas of interest include EU data protection laws and the data protection regulatory framework at the local and state level in the U.S. She is currently researching the data protection framework that applies to political data in the U.S.