Jay Averitt: the evolving role of the Privacy Engineer, technical privacy reviews and DPIAs

Jay Averitt is currently a Senior Privacy Product Manager at Microsoft, where he manages technical privacy reviews involving Microsoft365 products including CoPilot, GPT, and other LLM products. He was previously a Privacy Engineer at Twitter, where he managed technical privacy reviews across the platform. He’s been working in privacy for over a decade as both a privacy technologist and a privacy attorney. Before switching to technical privacy, he worked as a technology counsel at SAP, SAS, and Lenovo.

References:

• Jay Averitt on LinkedIn ( / jay-averitt )
• NIST, Privacy Engineering Program (www.nist.gov/i...)
• Daniel J. Solove, Against Privacy Essentialism (papers.ssrn.co...)
• María P. Angel and Ryan Calo, Distinguishing Privacy Law: A Critique of Privacy as Social Taxonomy (digitalcommons...)
• Sergio Maldonado, Some takeaways from PEPR’24 (USENIX Conference on Privacy Engineering Practice and Respect 2024) ( / some-takeaways-from-pe... )