Longtime privacy attorney Peter McLaughlin remembered as 'the best in our profession'
Peter McLaughlin, a privacy attorney widely respected within the field, has died. The International Association of Privacy Professionals remembered him with a tribute describing him as the best in the profession.
Why this matters: Privacy law is a small world, and the people who build it matter. McLaughlin was one of the practitioners others pointed to when they wanted to know how the work should be done. Fields like this are shaped more by a handful of serious people than most outsiders realize. Losing someone at that level is worth pausing on — not just as a professional loss, but as a reminder of how much the quality of privacy protection depends on the humans behind it.
Who should care: General readers · Privacy officers · Policy
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