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As CEO and Co-Founder of Virtru, John Ackerly is proud to be helping millions of individuals and thousands of organizations take control of the information they store and share online. A longtime privacy advocate, Ackerly was responsible for technology policy at the White House and was the Policy and Strategic Planning Director at the U.S. Department of Commerce. Prior to co-founding Virtru, John was an investor at Lindsay Goldberg LLC, working with entrepreneurs to dramatically scale their businesses. John graduated from Williams College Summa Cum Laude, was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School with Highest Honors.

U.S. Data Privacy Legislation: Accountability, Transparency and No ‘Back Doors’

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A year ago, the possibility of enacting consequential U.S. data privacy legislation was incomprehensible. Rep. Will Hurd (R-TX) claimed as much when asked whether a U.S. version of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was likely. He argued, “A year ago, the answer would have been not ‘no’, ... Read More
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Data Privacy is a Property Rights Issue

Data Privacy is a Property Rights Issue

| | Data Privacy, Data Sharing, personal data, personal information
Over the past decade, the erosion of trust in our institutions and each other has metastasized from a localized problem—primarily in our financial institutions and certain government agencies—into a societal crisis. And it is harming private citizens as well as the business sector. Apple CEO Tim Cook has made this ... Read More
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