Lauren Smith, CIPP/US, is a Senior Policy Counsel at the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF), where she focuses on big data and the Internet of Things as related to connected cars, data ethics, algorithmic decision-making, and drones. Lauren leads the FPF Connected Cars Working Group, and serves as an expert and thought leader across the country through speaking engagements, media interviews, and interaction with state and federal regulators and strategic partners.

Prior to working at FPF, Lauren was a Policy Advisor in the White House Office of Science and Technology, where she played a core role in the White House Big Data report, the launch of the Precision Medicine Initiative, and policy initiatives around privacy, intellectual property, regulatory policy, and innovation for global development. She was previously a Research Associate for Economic Policy at the Center for American Progress. Lauren is a graduate of Wesleyan University and the UC Berkeley School of Law, where she earned a Certificate in Law and Technology.

Speaking Engagements

• April 4, 2019: Time to Speed Ahead or Pump the Brakes? A Conversation on Data & the Connected Car in Washington, DC
• April 3, 2019: A Bipartisan Conversation on Data and Privacy in Connected Vehicles at Mobility Talks International at the DC Auto Show in in Washington, DC
• March 4, 2019: A Privacy Roundtable Through the Lens of Disability for the American Association of People with Disabilities with the in Washington, DC
• January 30, 2019: Cars + Data for the Privacy and Data Protection Working Group for the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO)
• January 14, 2019: Key Legal and Policy Reforms for Emerging Transport Technologies at the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting in Washington, DC
• November 26, 2018: Data and Privacy in the Autonomous Car: What Issues Might We Face? at the Securing Mobility Summit at the LA Auto Show in Los Angeles, California
• October 24, 2018: Keynote Speaker at the 2018 Ecolane Pennsylvania Partner Conference in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania
• October 19, 2018: The Growing Data and Mobility Ecosystem at Privacy.Security.Risk in Austin, Texas
• October 18, 2018:  Cracking the Toughest Nut in a DPIA: Identifying Specific Harms at Privacy.Security.Risk in Austin, Texas
• October 17, 2018: CaCPA On the Ground: Exploring Case Studies in Ad Tech, Smart Cars, Health at the Understanding the CaCPA” Workshop in Austin, Texas
• October 5, 2018: Data and Privacy in the Autonomous Car: What New Questions Might We Face? at the Privacy+Security Forum in Washington, DC
• September 25, 2018: Privacy Panel: Legislative Impact on Information Sharing and Data Analytics at the Auto-ISAC 2018 Summit in Detroit, Michigan
• September 24, 2018: Data and Privacy for Autonomous Vehicles at the FPF and PwC Data and Privacy for Autonomous Vehicles Roundtable in Detroit, Michigan
• September 4, 2018: you’re a data subject. what are your rights? at the me Convention in Stockholm, Sweden
• June 20, 2018: Who’s Watching the Watchers? Balancing Privacy and Security at Tel Aviv University Cyber Week in Tel Aviv, Israel
• June 19, 2018: Data and the Future of Mobility at the Israeli Tech Policy Institute’s Data and the Future of Mobility Roundtable in Tel Aviv, Israel
• June 18, 2018: The Future of Mobility at From Local to Global: Technology, Privacy, and Policy for the Digital Economy in Tel Aviv, Israel
• May 31, 2018: Data Protection, Privacy, and Explainability at the MIT Media Lab Symposium on Trust and Ethics of Autonomous Vehicles in Cambridge, MA
• April 18, 2018: LexisNexis Middle Eastern Women Lawyers Study Tour
• February 21, 2018: Special Issues of Algorithms at the Internet Data Privacy Colloquium at the Dialogue on Diversity in Washington, DC
• January 23, 2018: Privacy Landscape and Implementation at the Privacy and the Connected Vehicle: Navigating the Road Ahead in Washington, DC
• January 9, 2018: Federal Action Regarding Transportation Data Privacy: Are Data Becoming as Important as Gasoline? at the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting in Washington, DC
• December 12, 2017: Panel 1: Injuries 101 at the Federal Trade Commission Informational Injury Workshop in Washington, DC
• November 27, 2017: National Security Briefing: Will Terrorists Target Autonomous Vehicles Next? at the Securing Mobility Summit at the LA Auto Show in Los Angeles, CA
• November 9, 2017: Connected Vehicles and Data at the National Transportation Data Challenge Summit in Washington, DC
• October 18, 2017: The Future of Automotive Cybersecurity at DC CyberWeek in Washington, DC
• October 17, 2017: TEDx: What’s Driving the Connected Car? Data, It Turns Out at Who’s in the Driver’s Seat? The Transformation of Transportation, a TEDx Wilmington Salon in Wilmington, DE
• October 6, 2017: Privacy in the Connected Car: Technical and Policy Considerations at the Privacy + Security Forum in Washington, DC
• October 5, 2017: Case Studies in Algorithms: Weighing Privacy Risks at the Privacy + Security Forum in Washington, DC
• June 28, 2017: Cybersecurity and Data at the Federal Trade Commission and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Workshop on Privacy, Security Issues Related to Connected, Automated Vehicles in Washington, DC (video)
• June 6, 2017: Smart Cities: Balancing Privacy & Innovation at the TrustE Privacy Risk Summit in San Francisco, CA
• June 2, 2017: Leveraging Innovation to Solve the Data Sharing Challenge at the Alliance for Transportation Innovation’s Autonomous Vehicle Policy Series in Washington, DC
• April 24, 2017: Unfairness by Algorithm: Distilling the Harms of Automated Decision Making at the Berlin Group meeting in Washington, DC
• April 20, 2017: New Developments in Privacy for the Connected Car at the IAPP Global Privacy Summit in Washington, DC
• March 30, 2017: Unfairness by Algorithm: Distilling the Harms of Automated Decision-Making at RightsCon in Brussels, Belgium
• January 24, 2017: Legal Liability & Insurance at the Washington Auto Show’s MobilityTalks International in Washington, DC
• October 13, 2016: Data Privacy and the Connected Car at the TU-Automotive West Coast Conference in San Diego, CA
• September 16, 2016: Defining Data Ethics in an Observational Age at the IAPP Privacy.Security.Risk summit in San Jose, CA
• September 14, 2016: Data and the Future of Mobility at the Future of Privacy Forum Roundtable on Data and the Future of Mobility in San Jose, CA
• August 12, 2016: The Future of Vehicle Security at the Technology and Telematics Forum at NACE CARS Expo & Conference in Anaheim, CA
• July 18, 2016: Data Encryption: What Apple’s Attempt to Keep the “Back Door” Locked Means for Transportation at the 55th Annual Workshop on Transportation Law hosted by the Transportation Research Board in Washington, DC
• April 26, 2016: Privacy In Health: The Regulatory Regimes & the In-Betweens, at the MobCon Digital Health Conference in Minneapolis, MN
• April 5, 2016: Social Listening: Should There Be Privacy in Public Data? at the International Association of Privacy Professional’s Global Privacy Summit
• April 1, 2016: The Changing Landscape of Transportation: Technology, Data, and the Law at the Texas A&M Law Review Symposium in Fort Worth, TX
• March 9, 2016: Communications and Policy at Privacy and the Connected Vehicle: A Global Event by EY and the Future of Privacy Forum in Detroit, MI

Learn more about Lauren’s’s work by reading The Future of Mobility in a Connected World: FPF’s Lauren Smith on Connected Cars, Data, and more.