Biography

Haigh, I’m Matthias. I live in Dublin, Ireland. I came here in 2019 for work. I planned to stay for twelve months while waiting to apply for an L-1 visa to move to California. But that plan got nixed thanks to a global pandemic and the suspension of the L-1 visa program in 2020. It all worked out okay, though. I have made Ireland my home and work remotely as a privacy professional protecting people’s rights at a global advertising technology company.

Before coming to Ireland, I spent five years in Brussels, Belgium working as a policy wonk in the EU Bubble. Among other things, I led the creation of an open-standard technical and policy framework that helps online services to comply with EU privacy and data protection law. If you encounter a consent request on a website, there is a good chance it uses that framework.