**Dr. Edvard Joseph** is a data privacy and healthcare advocate who believes that everyone should own, control, and determine the way their protected information is processed. Dr. Joseph's research focus is HIPAA compliance, biomedical engineering, global data privacy regulation, risk management, biometric, consumer data protection, patient privacy disclosure and policy compliance specific to the E.U. General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), and HIPAA.