Parker Poe hosted a KnowledgeNet session for the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) on June 6, 2022 in Raleigh, NC and online for virtual participants. Parker Poe’s data privacy and security attorney Robert Botkin interviewed Chief Privacy Officer (CPO) for the North Carolina Department of Information Technology, Cheri Givens. Ms. Givens shared her experience thus far as North Carolina’s first CPO, the challenges implementing a privacy program across different agencies, the unique differences she has identified between private and public, privacy practice and why she thinks the CIPP/G deserves reconsideration.

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