Welcome, Everyone, to the Good Counsel Podcast - a show about the intersection of law and technology, where we dive into the most important legal issues affecting today’s technology companies. I'm Chris Sands with TechGC - which is community platform for General Counsels and other in-house legal professionals within the venture capital and high growth tech industry. In this episode we will cover, in less than 10 minutes, a broad overview of how digital privacy law is and will continue to affect the technology ecosystem in the United States. We've collected discussions from thought-leaders who touch privacy on all sides of the spectrum as a well-rounded perspective that includes corporate, legal, and academic viewpoints, can help break away an inclination to view these issues in a vacuum. We'll add clarity around the California Consumer Privacy Act, the largest privacy legislation since Global Data Protection Regulation enacted in 2018, and also get a sense of what incoming Federal Privacy Legislation may look like. This is a topic that undoubtedly affects every technology company using data as a core aspect of their business model. And as tech startups require a lean, nimble, and ready to pivot strategy - receiving insights about areas of impact, particularly major shifts in the law, ought to be entrenched in all forward-thinking leadership for companies currently innovating. Today we’ll here from the following: - Hyongsoon Kim, Consumer Privacy Litigator and Partner at Law Firm, Akin Gump in Orange County. - Ben Barokas, CEO & Founder of SourcePoint, a privacy compliance integration service for publishers, based in New York City. - Michelle De Mooy, Director of Privacy and Data at the Center for Democracy & Technology, a non-profit in Washington D.C with a 25 year track record in crafting privacy policy reform. In that order, let’s hear some of their comments on CCPA, privacy trends, and outlook for the future. Opening access to information that has been historically opaque to the consumer, just may be the right direction for many companies offering data-driven products and services. Global Data Protection Regulation and now the California Consumer Privacy Act are setting these types of standards. The big question mark is around the future standards set by federal data privacy laws. Perhaps executives should also think about ways to go beyond GDPR and CCPA to establish their own ethical standards around privacy. In a rapidly evolving digital environment with bi-partisan support on drawing hard lines on privacy, taking proactive measures to get ahead of the privacy trends could be highly advantageous while also expressing goodwill to regulators. But what do you think? This is a highly complex issue and TechGC would love to keep this privacy discussion going. You can contact us via LinkedIn, Twitter, or through the Good Counsel Newsletter, which is our monthly aggregation of the most important legal news and trends affecting technology companies, curated by a community of General Counsels of leading tech firms. Once again, I'm Chris Sands and thanks for tuning in to the Good Counsel Podcast.