Data protection professionals and organization management officers share a common question: Who should the data protection officer be? Some argue that a legal professional is most suitable for this role; some argue that an operations professional is the natural pick. In this article for The Privacy Advisor, Luis Alberto Montezuma, CIPP/C, CIPP/E, CIPP/US, CIPM, FIP, and Qian Li Loke, CIPP/A, CIPM, FIP, suggest it’s not the background of a DPO, but rather whether a data protection committee exists that would prove critical to an organization’s data protection efforts.
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