For the first time ever, the IAPP Vanguard Awards recognized five leading privacy professionals from different corners of the globe: Asia, Europe/Middle East, Latin America, North America and Oceania. The IAPP Vanguard Award is given to individuals who advance “the profession through noteworthy commitment, contribution and leadership.”
About the awards
The IAPP recognizes five Privacy Vanguard Award winners, one from each of these geographical regions: EMEA, Asia, Oceania, North America (US and Canada) and Latin America (including Mexico). The winners will have demonstrated exceptional leadership, knowledge and creativity in privacy and data protection.
Winners are formally celebrated at special awards presentation ceremonies at the IAPP Global Privacy Summit, IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress, the ANZ Summit and Asia Privacy Forum. They receive distinctive IAPP keepsakes commemorating their achievements and are recognized in IAPP publications.
Latin America’s IAPP Vanguard Award winner is Allende & Brea Partner Pablo Palazzi
Palazzi’s privacy journey has seen him involved in the drafting of Argentina’s national data protection act and its regulations and the data protection law for the city of Buenos Aires. He was a foreign law advisor for the European Commission assessing the adequacy of Uruguay and Argentina.
“I’m very happy to be recognized by my peers who are part of this community,” Palazzi said. “I started with IAPP when I would send out bulleted news about privacy in Argentina and South America before there was an internet, so this means a lot.”
Palazzi said his experience working with European regulators to introduce the EU General Data Protection Regulation was invaluable when it came time for Argentina to modernize its privacy laws.
“It’s great to modernize your own laws, and to modernize your laws means you have to cooperate,” Palazzi said. “Because I studied the development of (EU) GDPR from the moment it started, I was aware of all the nuances and details. We wanted to use the federal law of Argentina as a model but to update it with respect to new matters like biometric data, or genetic data, and the reference to the internet as public source of personal data, and a better regulation of the judicial process of habeas data.”
Source: https://iapp.org/news/a/iapps-2022-privacy-vanguard-award-winners/
