Notes from the Executive Director

As I write, we are busy with final preparations for the IAPP Canada Privacy Symposium in Toronto. Soon after, we’ll head to Silicon Valley and then Berlin, Brussels and Paris for this year’s European delegate tour. A year that started off with a bang continues to gain momentum. By the end of 2010, we’ll have hosted more events and programs than in any other year in our decade-long history. This is a reflection of the increased need for information and education in our field and we will continue building our member offerings to satisfy it. This summer we will take a big step in this direction by bringing the

online. Starting in July, the newsletter will move to a digital format. This change comes in response to the requests of many of you who have, in recent years, expressed an interest in receiving the monthly newsletter electronically. In our 2009 member survey, 70 percent of you stated your preference for a digital newsletter. The online edition will continue to deliver the elements you are accustomed to—expert-written feature articles, news items, and the popular Global Privacy Dispatches—and will be available to members only on our Web site. Importantly, moving the

online allows us to invest more in content generation, thereby putting more information resources in your hands through the e-newsletter and the new Knowledge Center on our Web site. In the coming months you will notice more articles, reports, news stories, and other knowledge resources such as whitepapers, original research, and news analysis as a result of this. We are excited to bring these changes to you.