Mr. Avalos told WSJ Pro Cybersecurity in an interview that the “abdication of American leadership” in the area of data privacy and security regulation is causing companies to look to other countries for an indication of where international tech policy is headed. Businesses should instead be pushing legislators to create new American technology laws, he maintained. The decade that he spent advising Silicon Valley giants through the rise and turmoil of social media has given Mr. Avalos ideas about how to rebuild the contract underpinning firms’ security and privacy obligations to users.
Julio Avalos, chief strategy officer and general counsel at software coding platform GitHub Inc., was mentioned in an article on U.S. reluctance to regulate date privacy and security, in the Wall Street Journal.