Rita Heimes, CIPP/E, CIPP/US, CIPM
Rita Heimes is the IAPP’s General Counsel and Chief Privacy Officer. Prior to joining the IAPP as its first Research Director in 2015, Rita was a law professor and academic dean at the University of Maine School of Law, where she directed the Center for Law + Innovation and developed the nation’s first Privacy Pathways program. She also worked in private practice with law firms in Seattle, Boulder and Portland, ME. She has a BA in Journalism from the University of Iowa and a JD from Drake University School of Law.
Contributions by Rita Heimes
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Lessons from Non-profits on Budgets, Buy-In, and Building a Privacy Culture
Speaker at IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2025 -
CPRA Comprehensive
Forum Speaker at IAPP Privacy. Security. Risk. 2021 -
Changes in IAPP's cookie tool
Westin Research Center -
Building Ethical Decision Making into Legal Advice on Data Protection
Moderator at IAPP Summit Sessions 2020 Online -
The Evolving Privacy Professional: Dealing With Change in Times of Crisis
Speaker at IAPP Summit Sessions 2020 Online -
Privacy in the Wake of COVID-19: Current and Future Impacts
Web Conference Speaker -
Building Ethical Decision Making into Legal Advice on Data Protection
Web Conference Speaker -
Current and Future Enforcement Trends
Speaker at IAPP Summit Sessions 2020 Online -
Swimming in the Right Lane: How to Avoid the Unauthorized Practice of Law
Speaker at IAPP Summit Sessions 2020 Online -
Career Transitioning from eDiscovery into Privacy
Web Conference Speaker -
The IAPP updates its privacy notice
Westin Research Center