Tips or resources on any career that advances privacy?

I was a software engineer for about 30 years, and towards the end of my career, I tried to get into “Privacy” at my large tech company. In my experience, “privacy” is a policy/compliance thing for most companies. It seems to be more about being a liaison between the legal dept and engineering. If you’re lucky, you can design technical frameworks (probably internal) that support privacy goals - like data governance or perhaps writing design specs/goals. So if you’re a tech person who wants to work in “privacy”, you either need to work for a tech company that’s explicitly about enhancing privacy (like Proton or Tor), or you work on “security” in ways that enables privacy for your users - like implementing E2EE, refactoring existing code to support anonymity/de-identification, etc. Given that you have a PhD, you might look at finding ways to use homomorphic encryption or other privacy-enhancing technologies.