Tanya M. Richardson is a senior privacy and technology lawyer who works across consumer technology, youth privacy and safety, and the governance of data-driven and automated systems. She has held senior legal and privacy leadership roles at Snap and Uber, advising on consumer-facing technologies deployed across both digital and physical environments. She served as General Counsel and Chief Privacy Officer of a cybersecurity firm, advising on data governance, security, and regulatory risk across data-intensive systems. At Snap, she led the legal function for the teams responsible for wearable, sensor-enabled, and AI-powered consumer products.
Her work centers on how privacy by design, consent, accountability, and user safety operate across product development and deployment, particularly as systems increasingly rely on automation, inference, machine learning, and related AI capabilities. Her work involves live, continuously evolving products, including novel product categories and contexts involving teens and children, non-users, sensitive data, and new uses of existing data.
Her work is shaped by partnership with engineering, product, policy, and trust and safety teams. She has served on the IAPP Advisory Board and has spoken for IAPP, Bloomberg Law, and the American Bar Association.