About Me

PRIVACY EXPERT – TECH SPECIALIST

Hi, I’m Carl Gottlieb, a pragmatic Brit with a passion for privacy, tech and business. Professionally I’m the trusted privacy advisor to leading tech companies, helping them gain maximum advantage through the right privacy strategy. My clients include Duolingo (the largest education app on the App Store) and Hudl (the global leader in sports analytics). I describe myself as an “Iceberg Spotter”, helping organisations understand the privacy risks floating their way and advising them on how to keep their ship sailing at full speed. It’s my job to help tech companies succeed at what they do best by making privacy compliance a net positive.

All this means that I get to work with some fantastic people and experience a wide array of challenges, approaches and solutions to cutting edge privacy problems. I’m now in my 23rd year in the industry and the future looks as exciting as ever.

My consultancy company Cognition has a great team of people doing amazing things in privacy and security, including providing Data Protection Officers, in-depth assessments and virtual security engineers. Their talent, dedication and attitude inspire me every day.

I have a privacy podcast ( The GDPR Guy) and I blog about privacy and provide how-to guides on ePrivacy & cookie banners on this website. I occasionally appear in the written press or on TV and radio interviews and you might bump into me speaking at a conference.

Outside of work my focus is my family and being the best dad and husband I can be.

Happy Clients

SOME OF THE LEADING TECH BRANDS I WORK WITH

In the Media

TV AND RADIO INTERVIEWS

• Nadine Dorries – Sky News Live Interview

• Radio Interview – LBC – CIA Hacking Tools Breach

• Government Email Hacking – Sky News Interview

• Radio Interview – LBC – Tesco Bank Security Breach

• Mirai Botnet DDoS – Sky News Live Interview

• Radio Interview – LBC – China Cyber Security

Talks & Presentations

VIDEOS OF MY TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS AT INDUSTRY CONFERENCES

• COPPA vs The Age Appropriate Design Code – Child Privacy in 2020

• Presentation – War Stories From The Front Line Of Sec. Mgmnt

• Presentation – GDPR For Hackers by Carl Gottlieb

• Presentation – Let’s cut the crap on GDPR

• Presentation – GDPR – When Compliance Finally Got Interesting

In the Press

INTERVIEWS AND COMMENTARY IN ONLINE NEWS OUTLETS

• BBC News – British Airways fined £20m over data breach
• Forbes – This iPhone Hack Let Google Access iOS Device Files
• Forbes – iPhone iMessage Security Vulnerability Lets Attackers Read Your Files From Anywhere