Proactive Data Protection strategies for Edge Computing

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Improve trust and safety in your IoT devices with strategy and measurement.  

Are you a DPO or privacy compliance expert wondering how to measure the privacy protections of your Edge devices?  Want to move from a reactive to a proactive privacy program where you feel prepared for the next regulation or adversarial threat?   Tired of feeling like a roadblock when talking to other teams about data protection?

Let us help you.  

We've worked with Google, Waze and RAND to proactively identify and resolve privacy and reputation risks.  We focus on AIoT or edge computing such as home and transportation devices that use AI.  After working with us, companies can better communicate to investors, partners, and government agencies how they address data protection, safety, and trust.  

Similar results and more are guaranteed for your company while staying within your existing budget. 

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Data protection roadmap

Improve trust and safety with a technical strategy for privacy.  Gain a clear roadmap for privacy and data protection through best engineering practices that both legal and security teams love. 

Privacy Red Team and Vulnerability Tests

Identify privacy risks before motivated attackers do.  Protect and fix your software through scoped privacy penetration tests or privacy red teams. 

What we offer

Data protection consulting for Internet-of-Things and AI-enabled products.

  • Expert data protection experience:  We've been working on privacy since 2010. We've helped start-ups, large tech companies, and specialized government agencies define strategies for machine learning, including face recognition and speech recognition.   
  • Values-based engineering and design: Are you a values-driven organization that wants to make the world a better place? So are we!  We are committed to compassionate privacy development for all technology users. 
  • Engineering skills and technical know-how: We specialize in AI and voice-enabled devices based on our background working with speech recognition, voice-enabled devices, and home Edge devices.
  • International and multi-cultural:  We have work experience in 5 countries, including in Europe and the USA. We offer an international perspective.  We are based in Switzerland and we are available during European work hours.
      

 Hello! 

I'm Rebecca Balebako

I'm the founder of Balebako Privacy Engineer.

With more than a decade of experience as a privacy engineer at Google, Waze, and RAND,   I have helped tech startups and international corporations identify and fix data protection vulnerabilities and build features that people love.  

I offer expertise on Privacy Red Teams for large corporations, and data protection strategies for tech startups.  

  • Google in Switzerland
  • Waze
  • RAND Corporation
  • Dragon Systems Speech Recognition
  • Carnegie Mellon University
  • Harvard University

What others say about working with us:

M. Le Tilly - Privacy Investigation at Google


Rebecca is both a highly-skilled privacy engineer and a reliable manager.

A. Wyeth - Tech Lead at Google


 Rebecca's data protection knowledge and ability to think through what was best for the user were essential to the success of our Privacy Red Team exercises. 


 I highly recommend her to anyone looking for a data protection expert.

G. Honvoh Chabi -  Manager at Tech Startup


Rebecca ensures processes are followed and tasks effectively completed within the time frame by her team and any third party involved. 

Schedule a Meet and Greet

Do you want to talk to us about whether this would benefit your data protection program? Let's have a 15-minute meet and greet.  

Call includes:

  • Honest answers to your questions about whether this service is a good fit for your org.
  • Adversary elicitation: To improve your threat models, we can brainstorm privacy adversaries.  

Call does not include:

  • Sales Pitch 
  • No strings attached: "It isn't for us" is an acceptable decision

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