GSEC Privacy Clinic for startups based in EMEA
‘One-to-one mentoring sessions with experts from the Google Safety Engineering Center’
Building trustful relationships with your users requires giving users choice and control over their privacy. This one-to-one virtual Privacy Clinic provides startups with an opportunity to receive constructive feedback on how to build a privacy-first product roadmap — from launching new products, user interfaces or features to asking for users’ consent.
Register for a 30-minute one-to-one mentoring session for EMEA based startups below. Sessions will be made available at the beginning of each quarter.
Helping developers and organizations use differential privacy
Content overview
During your 30-minute one-to-one mentoring session, privacy experts from the Google Safety Engineering Center in Munich (GSEC) will provide tailored and actionable feedback to help you build trustful relationships with your users. Based on the brief you provide when booking the session, you might also meet User Experience Design experts, who share their knowledge, best practices and helpful resources for designing user privacy experiences, and how to establish a user-centric product organization.
Pre-work and process
Before your one-to-one mentoring session, you will be asked to provide a brief for the privacy experts that outlines your current privacy strategy and concrete privacy-related questions you would like to discuss with the experts. This brief is used to connect you with the Google privacy expert with relevant background (e.g. software engineering, privacy policy, interaction design) to review your needs, provide tailored feedback and insights, and discuss existing or yet unknown considerations. As the brief provides the context for your conversation, the document must be completed at least seven days before the one-to-one mentoring session.
Why participate?
It is much easier to build a user-focused product from the ground up rather than try to repair broken trust later. Ensure your growing business is protecting users’ privacy from the start by understanding how to minimize the amount of data collected, how it is processed, and how to cater for underlying privacy sentiments of users. Please note that privacy experts have an understanding of regional legal frameworks, such as GDPR, and can discuss data retention/deletion techniques for your use case, but will not be offering any legal counseling.
The 1:1 Privacy Clinic was very helpful to me and our team - I can only recommend to discuss and clarify all your questions and challenges with an experienced product expert.
Sarah Henley, Co-Founder and CEO of NextUp Comedy
The 30min with GSEC privacy experts was absolutely valuable for us. It gave me practical, first-hand tips on how to bring our data privacy & security standards to the next level.
Franzi Löw, Co-Founder & CTO of Localyze
Meet the Privacy Experts
Thorsten Biermann, Engineering Manager
Thorsten Biermann is an Engineering Manager with a Ph.D. in computer science and a history in the software and semiconductors industry. Currently, he is an Engineering Manager at the Google Safety Engineering Center (GSEC) and leads Privacy Consulting and Governance Engineering teams in EMEA. They help product teams across Google and Alphabet to build privacy-promoting products and build privacy infrastructure and tools to support that.
Michael Fütterer, Software Engineer
Michael is a Software Engineer and Privacy Consultant at the Google Safety Engineering Center in Munich, with a background in Mathematics. He helps teams across Google to make the right Privacy decisions for their products through best practices and technologies. Besides that he develops software to support that.
Klio Rapakoulia, Interaction Designer
Klio designs privacy experiences across Google products, with an increasing focus on keeping children safer online. She is Interaction Designer at the Google Safety Engineering Center in Munich. While her work includes a passion for color, shapes and responsive interfaces, it’s also about giving the confidence to users to make privacy choices that are right for them.