Rafae Bhatti, CIPP/US, CIPM

Rafae is a privacy attorney and security executive with experience in leading data protection programs at tech startups in Silicon Valley. He is currently serving as both privacy counsel and CISO at Tilia, a payment platform enabling creature economy in the metaverse. He is also the founder at ClaritasGRC.ai, a platform providing technology and legal insights on security and privacy risks to help bridge the gap for data protection compliance.
Rafae has led the security and compliance programs at multiple Bay Area startups in his career. Prior to that, he has worked in technical roles at IBM Research and Oracle, and in advisory roles at Accenture Technology Labs and PwC. He has served as a member of the IAPP Privacy Engineering Advisory Board, and is currently Vice-Chair of the ABA Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Committee. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Purdue University, and a J.D. from Santa Clara University. He has 3 granted US patents, and served for 10 years as an Adjunct Professor of Computer Engineering at Santa Clara University. He is also a senior member of the ACM.
Contributions by Rafae Bhatti
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What's In Your Wallet: Privacy and Security Risks for Fintech in the Metaverse
Speaker at IAPP Privacy. Security. Risk. 2023 -
Liability for software insecurity: Striking the right balance
The Privacy Advisor -
What SolarWinds teaches us about managing risk of cyber loss
The Privacy Advisor - Member of Privacy Engineering Section Advisory Board 2021 - 2022
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The road to reasonable security: What CISOs should know
Privacy Perspectives -
Breaches at our front door: What we can learn from Clearview AI
Privacy Perspectives -
Design considerations for building privacy-protecting analytics services
Privacy Tech