Scott R. Shipman
Scott R. Shipman is Senior Counsel for eBay Inc., located at the worldwide corporate headquarters in San Jose, California. His current responsibilities include leading and managing eBay's global privacy practice for customer and employee personal information for all eBay Inc. entities, subsidiaries and Joint Ventures including Skype, PayPal, Kijiji, Rent.com and Shopping.com. The privacy organization reports up to eBay’s General Counsel within the legal organization. As part of his responsibilities, Mr. Shipman coordinates with eBay’s Information Security, Trust and Safety and Internal Audit groups and provides privacy compliance reports to the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors.
Mr. Shipman currently teaches International Data Protection at Santa Clara University, School of Law as a lecturer in law, serves on the SCU High Tech Law Advisory Board, and coordinates a legal high technology internship program at eBay in conjunction with SCU. Mr. Shipman is a board member of the Consumer Privacy Law Forum. He is also a member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), a member of the Chief Privacy Officers Council of the Conference Board, and a member of the California Bar. He received his J.D. from Santa Clara University School of Law, and received his B.A. from University of Colorado, Boulder.