Cameron Russell is the primary privacy advisor on all global payments privacy matters at eBay Inc. Before eBay, Mr. Russell was Western Union’s Data Protection Officer (DPO) in the EEA, U.K., and Balkans, as well as Director, Privacy Counsel, and Initiatives with Western Union providing legal counsel to the company and serving as an advisor, strategist, and chief of staff to the Deputy General Counsel and Chief Privacy and Data Governance Officer. In these roles, he has been responsible for building data privacy and security into large and complex programs on an international scale while working toward other societally beneficial objectives.
Mr. Russell has provided expert testimony on privacy matters in legislative proceedings in California, Connecticut, and Vermont and has articles published in the Washington University Law Review, Stanford Technology Law Review, Berkeley Technology Law Journal, and Virginia Journal of Law and Technology, among other venues. Formerly, Mr. Russell practiced law as a partner in the Wender Law Group in New York.