Thank you, friend!

Thank you, Stephan. I've gotten a few knocks! Trying to chill a little before I answer any, but I really appreciate the thoughts.

Yeah. Like, I get what the court is actually saying here, but I think it made a damn mess of it.

...an expectation of privacy in any of these things, which is nonsense.

...metadata designed to be exchanged to facilitate communication between websites, such as "IP address, operating system name, operating system version number, browser name..." etc.

I think this is right, but I worry that the inclusion of the enumerated list below implies that users don't have...

Thank you so much, Melanie — I really appreciate that from you! Looking forward to however much rest as I can make my brain accept, and looking forward to the next challenge to come.

Thank you, that's good to know. I've done the consulting / solo thing in the past, and I already have some consulting / advising work lined up.

But really, I enjoy leading privacy teams. I enjoy building programs. I'm looking for CPO / head of privacy roles...maybe GC at a privacy-forward company.

Thank you, I really appreciate it. It'll be a weird stretch, but I think it'll be okay!

Thank you, friend. You're right, it's not super fun, but I'm certainly in a better place than most.

A woefully underrated art form indeed

Much appreciated!

Yeah. I mean, obviously there is more to it than I can easily put in random skeets, but like, that's what I do: I build privacy programs. It's what I've done since I was in private practice building them for little startups. I love building stuff, you know?

🙃 It's a fun time for us all, I suppose

(I say that, but anyone who knows me knows that I am incapable of resting, chilling, or turning off my brain, so we all know I'm actually going to take like five minutes off and then be antsy for the next thing. So...hmu if you know of something really, really hard I can go solve.)

It's not a fun time to be hitting the market, sure, but I'm okay. I'm looking forward to taking a little time off, focusing on art for a couple of months (...art does really well in a collapsing economy, right, guys? right? ...guys?), and then looking for the next challenge. I love a challenge.

And I'm pretty proud of that. I did a really good job of building a right-sized program, instead of over-investing in compliance frameworks and maturity for maturity's sake.

(There will still be counsel, and an amazing program manager, overseeing privacy there. Your data is safe. I promise.)

The bittersweet part is that it was made clear to me that I'm being let go because I essentially did my job too well: I engineered myself out of a job. I created a privacy program that is appropriate to the risk, distributed, scalable, and that runs pretty well without me. They don't really need me.

So I've been laid off.

It's weird, through all the funky vicissitudes of the economy, I'd only been laid off twice before, and one of those was because the company folded and everybody was getting laid off. This is the first time I've been laid off As A Lawyer.