Alex Proctor
Alex Proctor is a privacy and data protection professional with 15 years of experience spanning healthcare, critical infrastructure, and other highly regulated industries. With a strong foundation in cybersecurity, Alex brings a unique perspective to privacy and AI leadership. He led a cybersecurity consulting practice for half a decade and has led cybersecurity and privacy governance, risk, and compliance programs at a prominent EPC firm. He has also developed AI governance training resources used by cyber governance professionals globally. Alex serves as the Chief Trust & Privacy Officer at Captain Compliance—a privacy technology startup dedicated to simplifying complex privacy challenges and reducing privacy risk. The company’s streamlined platform addresses cookie consent management, dynamic privacy notices, data subject request processing, and more. Alex graduated from Oakland University with a bachelor’s degree in Management Information Systems (MIS). He holds numerous industry certifications, including the ISC2 CISSP and CCSP, as well as the IAPP CIPM, CIPP/E, CIPP/US, CIPT, and AIGP. Recognized by the IAPP as a Fellow of Information Privacy (FIP), Alex also chairs the IAPP Detroit KnowledgeNet chapter. He fosters dialogue and knowledge-sharing within the privacy community.
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AI New York Bar Tells Lawyers: Bill for Checking AI, Not for the Time It Saved
On October 31, 2026, the New York State Bar Association’s House of Delegates adopted “Legal Ethics Guidelines for Lawyers’ Use of Artificial…
DATA Sony Can’t Send Its Smart TV Tracking Case to Arbitration. Most of the Claims Now Have to Be Rewritten
Sony Electronics will have to defend its smart TV tracking case in federal court rather than in private arbitration.
AI Apple Watch’s Live Rewind Doesn’t Save Audio. Two-Party Consent Laws May Still Apply
Apple’s newest Apple Watch features are built on a promise that sounds simple: no recording exists.
NEWS Who Defrosted Europe’s Supermarkets? Inside the EU’s Response and the Russia Attribution Question
Two waves of attacks on supermarket refrigeration in under a month have turned a strange retail incident into a question for European…
AI Bavaria’s Privacy Regulator Puts AI Agents on Its 2027 Audit List: What Its New GDPR Guidance Asks
Bavaria’s data protection authority for the private sector has told companies where it will be looking next year.
NEWS Wells Fargo Wants Proof You Fired Your AI Agent. Federal Payments Law Hasn’t Caught Up
Wells Fargo customers who hand an AI agent their online banking login will soon carry a new obligation: if they want the…
NEWS Hackers Defrosted Supermarket Freezers Across Europe Overnight. It’s the Second Wave in a Month
Supermarket managers in at least seven European countries started Monday, November 2, by throwing away food.
GOVERNANCE RISK AND COMPLIANCE Geopolitics Now Writes the Risk Factors: What 10-K Filings Reveal About Data, Sanctions and AI Rules
Annual reports are written by lawyers who are paid to imagine what could go wrong.
COOKIES _uetsid Cookie: What It Is and How Microsoft Advertising Uses It
Advertisers who run campaigns on Microsoft Advertising (Bing, Microsoft Start and partner sites) install a Universal Event Tracking, or UET, tag to…
COOKIES test_cookie Cookie: What It Is and Why Google’s Ad Servers Set It
The name sounds harmless, and in a way it is. test_cookie is a short-lived cookie that Google sets on the doubleclick.net domain…
Data Privacy Challenges and Data Sharing Challenges
What Organizations Face and How to Solve Them The biggest data privacy challenges organizations face tod ay are not mysterious.
DATA Washington’s First Data Privacy Report: Every Finding and All 8 Recommendations From the Attorney General
Washington’s first statewide privacy report argues that the state’s targeted laws leave too much personal data unprotected.
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