At the IAPP’s Data Protection Intensive in London last month, the IAPP sat down with Irish Data Protection Commissioner Billy Hawkes to discuss the ins and outs of a regulator’s daily life on the job, the impending EU regulation, do-not-track and how he relaxes when he’s not regulating multinational giants headquartered in Ireland.
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