David A. Hoffman is Chair of the Board and Treasurer of the Triangle Privacy Research Hub. David is also Associate General Counsel and Global Privacy Officer at Intel Corporation, in which capacity he oversees Intel’s privacy activities and security policy engagements.
Mr. Hoffman joined Intel in 1998 as Intel’s eBusiness attorney to manage the team providing legal support for Intel’s Chief Information Officer. In 1999, he founded Intel’s Privacy Team, and in 2000 was appointed Group Counsel of eBusiness and Director of Privacy. In 2005, Mr. Hoffman moved to Munich, Germany, as Group Counsel in the Intel European Legal Department, while leading Intel’s Worldwide Privacy and Security Policy Team. Mr. Hoffman served on the US Federal Trade Commission’s Online Access and Security Advisory Committee.
Mr. Hoffman is a globally recognized expert in the area of privacy, data protection and technology policy. He received the International Association of Privacy Professionals’ 2014 Privacy Vanguard Award for his lifetime of accomplishment furthering online privacy. Mr. Hoffman served on the TRUSTe Board of Directors from 2000-2006, where he was Chair of the Compliance Committee of the Board. Mr. Hoffman was a member of the US Federal Trade Commission’s Online Access and Security Committee. Also, in 2005 Mr. Hoffman was appointed to the Department of Homeland Security’s Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee, on which at different times he served as the Chair of the Data Sharing and Use Subcommittee and the Chair of the Technology Committee. From 2005 – 2009, Mr. Hoffman served on the Board of Directors for the International Association of Privacy Professionals, on which he was the Board’s Treasurer.
He is currently a member of the Advisory Board for the Future of Privacy Forum, the board of the Information Accountability Foundation, the board of the National Cyber Security Alliance, chairs the data protection task force of the International Chamber of Commerce’s Digital Economy Commission, and chairs a privacy advisory panel for the US National Security Agency.
Mr. Hoffman has lectured on privacy and security law at schools in the US, Europe, Japan and China. He has a teaching appointment as a Senior Lecturing Fellow at his alma mater the Duke University School of Law where he was a Member of the Duke Law Review. Mr. Hoffman also received an AB from Hamilton College.