Jan Schallaböck, attorney-at-law, is a partner at iRights.Law and in charge of the data protection and compliance practice of the firm. Before joining iRights.Law, he was employed with the Data Protection Authority of the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein (ULD), being tasked with the working within various European research projects together with – amongst others – Microsoft, IBM, SAP and the Universities of Oxford, Leuven and Frankfurt. His commitment to international standardization also stems from this context. Jan is chairman of ISO PC 317 on "Consumer protection: privacy by design for consumer goods and services”, and he also has been serving as Vice-Convener/Convener-support to the ISO/IEC Working Group on privacy and identity management (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27/WG 5) for more than 15 years.