Corné is a privacy professional and Data Protection Officer with a background that spans finance, healthcare, and technology. He has held DPO roles at McKesson and Exact Sciences, and recently joined Abbott as Senior Manager and Privacy Program Manager / DPO. CIPP/E and CDPO certified, he brings a pragmatic, hands-on approach to building and running privacy programmes in complex multinational environments.
At Field Talk
Field Talk · November 2026
Persecution to Protection: The Origins of European Privacy Law and the Road to the GDPR
Data protection law did not emerge from a regulatory committee. It grew from the wreckage of war, persecution, and the systematic abuse of personal information by states. Corné traces that history — from the conditions that made privacy a fundamental right to the legal architecture we now work within every day. A reminder that what we do is not a compliance checkbox, but the practical expression of hard-won protections that matter.