VideoFrom law to Big Tech: what data sovereignty really is
TL;DR My friend Alex went from privacy law to TikTok's privacy engineering team. Part 1: how legal concepts turn into engineering work.
Can you go from a law degree to an engineering team? My friend Alex did. She studied corporate, privacy and IT law and now works as a Data Sovereignty Manager on TikTok's Privacy and Security Engineering team.
In part 1 we talk about what “data sovereignty” actually means, and how legal concepts turn into real engineering work at one of the world's biggest tech companies. Bridging a law-firm background and a computer science team is hard. She proves it's possible.
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