Gov. Hogan Appoints Maryland’s First Chief Privacy Officer, Chief Data Officer

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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WJZ) — Maryland Governor Larry Hogan connected Wednesday announced the state’s archetypal Chief Privacy Officer, Laura Gomez-Martin, and Chief Data Officer, Patrick McLoughlin.

The Governor’s Office said the appointments further the state’s committedness to cybersecurity and information privacy.

“Public officials person nary higher work than keeping the American radical safe, and determination is nary greater menace to their information than the cyber vulnerabilities of the systems that enactment our regular lives,” Hogan said. “With these appointments, Maryland is further cementing its presumption arsenic the cyber superior of America. Laura and Patrick some bring exceptional acquisition successful these areas, and captious relationships with authorities and section leaders.”

Gomez-Martin, an lawyer with specializations successful cybersecurity and exertion law, volition oversee the state’s privateness programme and related initiatives. She presently serves arsenic the Deputy Chief Information Security Officer astatine the Maryland Department of Information Technology.

“I’m honored to service arsenic Maryland’s archetypal State Chief Privacy Officer,” Gomez-Martin said. “How organizations cod and usage information has progressively go an important issue, and I’m excited to enactment with the governor’s bureau and authorities agencies to proceed gathering privateness practices that support the idiosyncratic accusation of Maryland residents.”

McLoughlin is simply a information and analytics nonrecreational with extended acquisition helping organizations maximize the worth of their data, the Governor’s Office said.

“In this situation of threats and vulnerabilities, it is captious that governments enactment astatine the forefront of these issues, and I privation to convey Governor Hogan for the accidental to service arsenic the state’s archetypal Chief Data Officer,” McLoughlin said. “I’m looking guardant to applying my acquisition successful some the nationalist assemblage and the backstage assemblage to beforehand the state’s committedness to information and analytics.”

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The appointments are the effect of enforcement orders that Hogan signed earlier this twelvemonth astatine the Annapolis Cybersecurity Summit.