AI Boom Compels Corporate Privacy Chiefs to Reinvent Themselves

Top corporate privacy officers used to have a clear, defined mission: protect personal data and comply with emerging privacy laws.

It isn’t that simple any more. The once highly-focused profession is increasingly oozing into other practices, from children’s safety online to artificial intelligence governance and data security—forcing privacy executives to reshape their roles.

In the last three years in particular, these have evolved as some tasks became automated, business expectations for privacy teams shifted, and AI introduced new challenges.

Now, chief privacy officers are ditching their old ways of handling compliance with privacy laws and sliding into more cross-disciplinary ...