Privacy Gurus Convene In D.C.
What is a privacy professional? About 1,200 attendees at this week's International Association of Privacy Professionals conference know -- but footage of man-on-the-street interviews (played for the crowd on Thursday morning) showed that average Americans do not.
The question garnered blank stares, head-scratching and some pretty funny answers. "Is that like the FBI or CIA?" one interviewee asked. A mailman said: "I don't have a clue." Another guessed that a privacy professional is someone "involved with something deceitful and dishonest." Quite a few people simply said: "I don’t know."
IAPP Executive Director Trevor Hughes admitted that his 3,200-member group has "a bit of a PR problem." "Perhaps I know what you do, you know what you do, our bosses sometimes know what you do," but many people do not, he said. Privacy experts must better explain their role as "guardians of trust" in the digital age, he added.
To that end, the IAPP will soon launch a campaign to educate the public. The group will also begin "delegate tours" later this year to learn from and share experiences with foreign counterparts. IAPP officials will visit London, Paris and Berlin in June, Hughes said.
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