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K Royal

Associate General Counsel and DPO at TrustArc

K Royal is an attorney and global compliance professional with 25 years of experience in the legal and health-related fields. K has a particular interest in technology along with its challenges and opportunities. On a typical day, she works with GDPR. HIPAA, CCPA, incident response, policy writing, and building privacy programs, when she is not speaking or writing on cybersecurity, IoT, nonconsensual porn, whistleblowing in the EU, and other wildly exciting privacy/data protection topics. She is certified through the IAPP as a Fellow of Information Privacy (FIP), Privacy Management (CIPM), and US and EU Privacy Law (CIPP/US, CIPP/E) and through ISACA as a data privacy solutions engineer (CDPSE).


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