Patrick Austin is Senior Cybersecurity & Data Privacy Counsel at BroadStreet Partners, where he works on privacy compliance, cybersecurity, incident response and AI governance. He has more than a decade of public- and private-sector information-security experience and has written about high-risk AI regulation, AI governance and responsible AI use. Austin holds the CIPP/US, CIPP/E and CIPM credentials, is a Fellow of Information Privacy and an IAPP/ABA-designated Privacy Law Specialist. He earned his J.D. from George Mason University School of Law.