We are pleased to announce that three members of the TRUSTe Board of Directors have been selected to sit on the new Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). This committee has been established to advise the Secretary of Homeland Security and the agency’s chief privacy officer on programmatic, policy, and technological issues that affect privacy. The three TRUSTe-affiliated committee members:

Richard Purcell, who was appointed chair of the TRUSTe board in January 2005, is the CEO of Corporate Privacy Group, an independent privacy-consulting group that focuses on privacy education. Previously, Purcell was the chief privacy officer for Microsoft Corporation.

Joseph Alhadeff, vice president for global public policy and chief privacy officer of Oracle Corporation, has served on the TRUSTe board since January 2004.

David Hoffman, group counsel and director of privacy at the Intel Corporation, has experience in privacy issues with business compliance and product development. He has served on the TRUSTe board for three years.

Members of the DHS’s Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee have diverse expertise in privacy, security, and emerging technology, and come from large and small companies, the academic community, and the nonprofit sector. The members also reflect a geographic diversity as well as a seasoned depth of knowledge on issues of data protection, openness, technology, and national security. The first committee meeting will be held on April 6, 2005, in Washington, D.C. To read the full list of advisory committee members, visit the DHS Web site.

 

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