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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What Is Zero Data Retention? ZDR Explained
Every prompt your employees send to an AI model is a disclosure.
New Jersey’s Fair Price Protection Act: How the State Just Made Surveillance Pricing on Groceries Illegal
On July 23, 2026, New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill signed the Fair Price Protection Act into law, making the Garden State one…
State Attorneys General Are Turning Cybersecurity Failures Into Enforcement Cases
For years, many companies treated cybersecurity as primarily a technical responsibility.
New Jersey’s A5328: The Data Broker Law That Comes for Companies With Direct Consumer Relationships
Being framed as the most dangerous data broker law for business owners who do not consider themselves data brokers yet will share…
AI State AI Laws: Colorado, Texas, California, New York, Illinois, and Utah
The United States does not have one clean federal AI law that tells companies exactly what to do.
AI Governance Software: What Features Companies Actually Need
AI governance software is going to become one of those categories every company suddenly realizes it needs after the problem is already…
DATA New Jersey Data Broker Law: The Most Expensive Data Broker Law in America and How to Comply
New Jersey just created the most expensive data broker law in America.
NIST AI RMF Explained for Privacy, Legal, and Compliance Teams
The NIST AI Risk Management Framework is one of the most useful AI governance tools for companies that are trying to figure…
EU AI Act Compliance for U.S. Companies
A lot of U.S. companies are going to misunderstand the EU AI Act until it is too late. They will assume it…
AI in Employment Decisions: Hiring, Promotion, Bias Audits, and State Law Risk
Artificial intelligence is already inside the employment process.
AI AI Vendor Due Diligence Checklist: What Companies Need to Ask Before Buying AI Software
Most companies will not build every AI system they use. They will buy it. They will subscribe to it. They will turn…
AI AI Impact Assessments: What Companies Need to Document Before Deploying AI
Most companies are moving too fast with artificial intelligence.
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