Who Governs Data in the AI Era? A Computational Analysis of the U.S. Privacy Workforce in Job Postings
Privacy protection now spans legal, technical, and managerial duties, and demand for privacy professionals is growing across sectors. However, little is known about how employers define these roles. We analyze 1,143 U.S. privacy job postings from LinkedIn and Indeed. We examine job titles, salaries, competencies, certifications, education, experience, regulatory references, and AI-related language by using rule-based text mining. We also apply Topic Modeling (BERTopic) to the same postings and identify 18 latent themes which we grouped them into four categories. Our findings show that privacy roles are hybrid and they combine legal knowledge, technical skills, and interpersonal competence...
| Authors | Ramazan Yener, Muhammad Hassan, Masooda Bashir |
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| Primary category | cs.CY |
| Published | 25 September 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 25 September 2026 |
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