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The Privacy Advisor | What a Year It Was; What a Year It’s Going To Be Related reading: A view from Brussels: EDPS sends signal on data transfers 

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Here at the IAPP, 2014 was anything but quiet, with bigger-than-ever events, our first conference in Asia, new publications from our Westin Research Center, our first European Privacy Pathway and exciting changes to our certification offerings. And this year? Well, let’s just start with our Global Privacy Summit in its new venue and with more exciting keynotes and education and networking opportunities than ever before. Yup. 2015 is going to be an amazing year.

Here are just a few highlights from the year that was, with a few teasers of what you can expect from your privacy association in the months ahead.

Connecting

When the IAPP’s final KnowledgeNet meetings for 2014 were held in December, we hit a grand total of 150 for the year, up 17 percent from the 128 we held in 2013.

“This increase in KnowledgeNet Chapter meetings reflects the commitment of IAPP staff and volunteers to create opportunities for privacy education and for invaluable peer-to-peer networking where thousands of privacy professionals can gather, meet and learn from each other in their own communities,” said Membership and Customer Relations Director Kimberly MacNeill, CIPP/US.

And if you’re interested in volunteering, we have lots of info—including spotlights on how others have given their time to help with publications, events, networking or education opportunities—on our Volunteer page.

Resources

Over the past year, we’ve significantly expanded the offerings in our Resource Center and the IAPP Westin Research Center, so if you haven’t checked them out in recent months, you’ll want to see what’s new and what’s been expanded there.

Here are just a few examples of our 2014 additions:

  • Industry of Privacy: Over the summer of 2014, the IAPP embarked on the first of what will be an annual effort to research and benchmark the privacy programs of the Fortune 1000. In partnership with third-party research firm Fondulas Strategic Research, we queried roughly 275 privacy leads at Fortune 1000 companies, all of them large, private, for-profit firms operating from a base in the U.S., and got a 23-percent response rate, providing us with one of the most comprehensive samples of corporate privacy leaders ever assembled. Find all the details here.
  • PII Vendors: Businesses must work with a large collection of vendors from a variety of disciplines to reach their privacy goals. From the legal advisors to the insurance companies to the IT services and software, the IAPP has sought to wrap its arms around the industry of privacy to get a handle on the universe of privacy vendors. Check out the index here.
  • Data Breach Response: While there are a number of data breach guides out there, the IAPP chose to focus on the many relationships and stakeholders involved in breach preparedness and response. Responding to a breach correctly involves a suite of people both inside and outside your organization. Understanding the best way to most efficiently utilize those people goes a long way toward ensuring that your response manages costs, manages business impact and puts the breach behind your organization as quickly as possible. View the whitepaper here.

Certification

For our certified members, 2014 saw our Continuing Privacy Education policy go through some changes. If you’re not up-to-date on the new policy that went into effect on October 1, here are the details we reported to make sure you’re taking advantage of the continuing education opportunities to keep your certification(s) up-to-date.

A lot was happening in Certification in 2014, with Certified Information Privacy Manager training launched in Singapore by the IAPP, the Singapore National Trades Union Congress’ Employment and Employability Institute and Straits Interactive, and our CIPP/G training becoming available online, just to name a few.

Privacy: The Next Generation

And 2014 was a great year to be exploring a career in privacy. We saw new additions to our Privacy Pathways program, and here on the Publications Team, we were able to look back to the IAPP’s original Privacy Pathway with University of Maine School of Law’s Center for Law + Innovation, announce new programs and highlight the first EU-based Privacy Pathway, which was born of discussions between Queen Mary University of London Prof. Christopher Millard and IAPP President and CEO Trevor Hughes, CIPP, and Promontory Managing Director Simon McDougall, CIPP/E, CIPM.

Events

For our IAPP Events, 2014 was the most successful year yet. Events Director Mindy Moore, CIPP/US, confirmed record attendance in all three of our major conferences: the Global Privacy Summit, IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress and the IAPP Privacy Academy and CSA Congress, adding we’re expecting a record-breaking 3,000-plus for this year’s Summit.

This past year also saw the launch of the IAPP Asia Forum, which is scheduled to return to Singapore in 2015.

And in addition to the totally redesigned, not-to-be-missed Global Privacy Summit in Washington, DC, this March, the IAPP is also heading to SXSW in 2015. Among the panels selected for SXSW will be “What Keeps the Internet’s Leading CPOs Up At Night,” moderated by IAPP President and CEO Trevor Hughes, CIPP, and featuring Microsoft CPO Brendon Lynch, CIPP/US, Google Senior Privacy Council Keith Enright, CIPP/US, CIPP/G, and Facebook CPO Erin Egan.

One thing is for certain for 2015. We’ll have a lot more news, events, educational opportunities and networking to tell you about in the months ahead. Stay tuned.

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