California Privacy Agency Names Kemp as New Top Official (1)

Tom Kemp, a prominent privacy advocate, was named Friday as the California Privacy Protection Agency’s new executive director.

Kemp will be in charge of leading the nation’s only privacy agency as it navigates intense lobbying pressure by the tech industry to stop its pending artificial intelligence regulations and handles a growing enforcement arm that just announced its first penalty under the state’s comprehensive privacy law.

Kemp has experience in IT security as he served as the CEO of cybersecurity cloud provider Centrify. He played a role in advising the voter-passed 2020 California Privacy Rights Act, which updated the state’s comprehensive ...