The IAPP formally announced on Wednesday the Privacy Bar Section of the IAPP, a group geared toward administering to the distinct needs of those in the privacy-oriented legal profession, The Privacy Advisor reports. Of the IAPP’s more than 25,000 members, “we know more than 40 percent are lawyers,” said IAPP President and CEO J. Trevor Hughes, CIPP, “and these lawyers need services.” The bar aims to be a place for privacy-focused legal professionals and academics to come together to both discuss the issues of the day, foster legal scholarship and “consider legal issues unique to our discipline,” said co-founder Christopher Wolf, CIPP/US. Editor’s Note: The Privacy Bar Section of the IAPP will have its inaugural event at the conclusion of the 2016 IAPP Global Privacy Summit in Washington on April 7.
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