Privacy, Patience and Practice with Justin P’ng [S4E22]

Tech Policy Grind

This week, Class 4 Fellow and Fellow Highlights series host Meri Baghdasaryan sits down with Justin P’ng. Justin is a Class 4 Fellow and a privacy and cybersecurity lawyer at Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP, an international law firm based in Canada. His practice focuses on cyber incident response, data governance, and privacy compliance. He obtained his law degree from Osgoode Hall Law School and previously studied International Relations at the University of Toronto. Justin is a Junior Board Member at the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project and was formerly President of the Federation of Asian Canadian Lawyers (FACL Ontario), a pan-Asian affinity bar association. He is interested in privacy frameworks, digital security, human rights, cybersecurity policy, and artificial intelligence regulation.

Meri and Justin chat about Justin’s journey into privacy and cybersecurity. They chat about his early and ongoing interests in human rights law, and initiatives he works on. Justin shares an overview of his day-to-day practice, the challenges and excitement of working in a dynamic field, as well as his projects and experience at the Foundry.

Resources mentioned in the episode:

• LinkedIn updates – suggested experts to follow: Omer Tene, Daniel Solove, Phil Lee, Odia Kagan
• IAPP and its KnowledgeNet chapters
• Law firm blogs, newsletters, bulletins, webinars
• Podcasts – Privacy Beat, Lawfare, The Sunday show, Cyberlaw podcast

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