About the IAPP

Chiara Rustici is an independent GDPR and EU privacy analyst. Formerly a research fellow with Italy's CNR, teaching fellow in Jurisprudence at the University of Genoa, and research scholar at the Universities of  Milan and Edinburgh, she has written extensively on how businesses should prepare for the GDPR. Her articles have been published both in trade and academic journals such as Computer Review International, Journal of Data Protection and Privacy, Bloomberg, O'Reilly, ComputerWeekly, HelpNetSecurity, Advisen, IQPC, Pharma IQ and EDRM. She has been instrumental in launching a GDPR Art. 40 Code of Conduct initiative at Duke University's Center for Judicial Studies and in organising a series of in-depth GDPR workshops at the BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT. She sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Data Protection and Privacy and her interviews on the impact of the GDPR on specific sectors have appeared in The Times, The Guardian,The Lancet, PrivacySense, EyeforPharma, and StaceyonIoT. Chiara produces highly respected reports on the impact of the GDPR on insurance, pharma and biomedical research, AdTech and the IoT and is more widely known for her controversial views on explicit consent (distinction without a difference), on legitimate interest (consent through gritted teeth) and data as the new regulated industry.