Challenges facing organizations from new data privacy, protection and security regulations enacted around the world were discussed at a PrivSec New York, a two-day conference at Columbia University this week that was attended by hundreds of professionals, including in-house counsel and big firm attorneys.

“The age of privacy has arrived and it is here to stay,” said Karima Noren, co-founder of The Privacy Compliance Hub and The Legal Pod in the U.K. who formerly was senior legal counsel and head of emerging markets at Google. Noren was once an associate at Ashurst, according to her LinkedIn bio.