Last week the Phaselab team attended the IAPP’s Global Privacy Summit, and one of the most interesting sessions we saw was a great panel on HR-related privacy. For companies with global workforces, managing employee privacy in compliance with local privacy laws is incredibly complex, and we wanted to highlight a few of the most important takeaways for our team. If your company has a global workforce or if you’re thinking of expanding globally,...

Before starting Phaselab, I spent the previous 11 years working in data science and analytics. More than perhaps any other group, data practitioners have enormous effects on their users’ privacy — deciding what data will be stored, where that data will be housed, how it’ll be transformed and incorporated into models, and whether and when it will be deleted. In my experience data practitioners care deeply about respecting users’ privacy, but...

At Phaselab we’re on a mission to make it easy for companies to build compliant and respectful privacy programs at scale. One of our strengths is building at the intersection of complicated policy requirements and complex data systems, and we’re excited to sink our teeth into a growing problem for large-scale privacy orgs: employee data subject access requests (DSARs). Though they’re not as frequent as consumer requests, when they do come in...

We talked to more than 20 privacy leaders about the state of employee privacy, and this is what we heard.

Last week our team attended the Privacy Engineering Practice and Respect (PEPR) conference, the leading US conference on privacy engineering, bridging the gap between academia and industry. There were so many amazing speakers, it’s hard to do all of the talks justice with a summary, but below we wanted to highlight a few themes that stood out to us.

Announcing the initial release of our product for automated governance of unstructured data.

I’m excited to introduce Phaselab, which I’ve founded with David van Dokkum. Driven by the conviction that data privacy concerns are becoming as critical and ubiquitous as security concerns, we created the company to help companies automate data privacy policies across their technical stacks.