Role of Privacy Engineering in Creating Digital Trust with Steve Ahouanmenou and Punit Bhatia in the FIT4PRIVACY Podcast E131 S06

Can trust be engineered? In this episode, Punit is joined by Steve Ahouanmenou, Global Privacy Engineering Lead for Open Banking at Mastercard, to explore the pivotal role of privacy engineering in creating digital trust. Steve discusses why trust isn’t sector-specific, emphasizing how transparency is vital across industries like healthcare and finance. The conversation dives into open banking, a revolutionary approach that gives consumers control over their financial data while fostering competition among financial service providers. Steve explains how privacy engineering brings privacy principles to life, embedding privacy by design, conducting risk assessments, and bridging the gap between privacy teams and technical teams.   Join us in discussing how privacy engineering is shaping the future of digital trust. Hear expert insights, real-world strategies, and thought-provoking discussions that will change the way you think about data, trust, and innovation.   KEY CONVERSION  00:01:59 How would you describe Digital Trust  00:05:53 What is Privacy Engineering?  00:10:31 What kind of a role do you expect from tech team  00:12:01 How can privacy pros help tech colleagues?  00:17:10 Best way to Reach you    ABOUT THE GUEST  Steve Ahouanmenou is part of the Global Privacy & Data Protection Department at Mastercard and leads the privacy engineering program in Open Banking.  His mission is to enable innovation and trust in the digital finance realm, by applying his analytical skills, domain expertise, and collaborative approach to privacy and security challenges.    With over 10 years of experience in information security, privacy risks and data governance, he has worked with global organizations in various sectors with a focus on healthcare and finance. He also a PhD Candidate at Ghent University, investigating information security and privacy in healthcare institutions, and an alumni of Belgium's 40under40. He holds multiple certifications, such as ISO 27001 Senior Lead Implementer, CIPP/E, CISM, CDPSE, ITIL v3, DPO, COBIT 5. ABOUT HOST  Punit Bhatia is one of the leading privacy experts who works independently and has worked with professionals in over 30 countries. Punit works with business and privacy leaders to create an organization culture with high privacy awareness and compliance as a business priority. Selectively, Punit is open to mentor and coach professionals.  Punit is the author of books “Be Ready for GDPR'' which was rated as the best GDPR Book, “AI & Privacy – How to Find Balance”, “Intro To GDPR”, and “Be an Effective DPO”. Punit is a global speaker who has spoken at over 30 global events. Punit is the creator and host of the FIT4PRIVACY Podcast. This podcast has been featured amongst top GDPR and privacy podcasts.  As a person, Punit is an avid thinker and believes in thinking, believing, and acting in line with one’s value to have joy in life. He has developed the philosophy named ‘ABC for joy of life’ which passionately shares. Punit is based out of Belgium, the heart of Europe.  RESOURCES  Websiteswww.fit4privacy.com,www.punitbhatia.com,https://www.linkedin.com/in/steve-ahouanmenou/  Podcast https://www.fit4privacy.com/podcast  Blog https://www.fit4privacy.com/blog  YouTube http://youtube.com/fit4privacy