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 AI Can Now Write Proofs That Code Won’t Crash. Here’s What “Formally Verified” Does and Doesn’t Promise
The same AI systems that have become good at finding software flaws are now being pointed at a harder job: proving that…
COMPLIANCE GM’s Three Settlements Show Why Privacy Laws Make Consumer Protection Enforcement Hit Harder
When General Motors agreed on October 29, 2026 to pay $220 million to 36 state attorneys general, most of the coverage, including…
COOKIES The Fnac App Asked, Users Said No, and the Tracker Kept Running: Inside the CNIL’s €7 Million Fine
France’s data protection authority, the CNIL, has fined two Fnac companies a combined €7 million over a tracker in the retailer’s mobile…
AI New York’s New Chatbot Law for Minors: The Banned Features, the Age Checks and the Model-Deletion Remedy
New York has a new law on what AI chatbots may say to children.
GOVERNANCE RISK AND COMPLIANCE NIST Finalizes Its Post-Quantum Road Map. Privacy Teams Hold the Map It Needs
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has finalized its road map for moving the United States off encryption that a future…
COMPLIANCE Streaks, Push Alerts and View Counts Go Before a Jury as the Meta and Snap Addiction Trial Opens
Jury selection began on Wednesday, October 28, in Los Angeles Superior Court in the next bellwether trial over claims that social media…
CALIFORNIA PRIVACY – CPRA CalPrivacy’s First Enforcement Chief Joins Latham & Watkins: What His Record Says About California Enforcement
The person who built California’s privacy enforcement team from scratch now works for the companies that team investigates.
DATA The Homework App and the Midnight Feed: How to Design Personalization for Young Users After the Meta Settlement
The biggest child safety settlement in U.S. history was about a design choice.
EDITORIAL Singapore’s First App Store Safety Audit: Age Checks Held Up, but 65 Harmful Apps and 24 Mis-Rated Apps Got Through
Regulators rarely get to test a child-safety rule the way a child would.
AI Who Pays When AI Makes It Up? What Courts in China, Germany and Georgia Have Decided So Far
Lawyers keep asking the same question about generative AI errors: when a chatbot invents a crime, a campus address or a company…
The Privacy Risk Between Your Business and Its AI Models
A business may carefully review an AI model provider and still overlook another company handling the same information.
Why the IAB’s MSPA Isn’t the Finish Line
On March 4, 2026, the Interactive Advertising Bureau released the Fifth Amended and Restated Multi-State Privacy Agreement, the most significant rewrite of…
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