More from the IAPP Privacy Academy
Posted by Kraig Baker
Lance Koonce and I are blogging from the IAPP (International Association of Privacy Professionals) annual conference in Las Vegas this week. The organization seems to be getting a lot of traction as a trade group. They have over 600 attendees this year -- many more than last year. They also have a much more impressive roster of companies and organizations participating and many of the attendees seem to be more senior than in years past. Of course there are also more lawyers here this year...never a good sign.
The conference has been excellent so far, particularly the keynote speakers. If there's anything that seems to be absent from the presentations of many of the speakers, though, perhaps it is a sense of the operational realities of implementing privacy and security processes and practices. One of the biggest problems behind designing frameworks to protect privacy and security has always been convincing users that it is worth the time and trouble to abide by the implemented processes. Without recognizing this, the systems advocated by the speakers will be nothing more than window dressing.
