Dear ITPEC members,
I write to briefly recap our achievements this year, to thank you for your ongoing participation, and to say farewell as Chair of the ITPEC.
This year we reinvigorated our monthly calls by refocusing the balance of the time from Committee matters to presentations by invited guests and ITPEC members. Highlights included Bruce Rogow's presentation on social networking, Iron Mountain on the facts and statistics of source code escrow, and most recently Maureen Cooney on social advertising. We covered efficiently Committee matters during the first few minutes of each call and in breakout sessions by ITPEC subcommittees and by ITPEC leadership.
Many of the decks for the presentations during our monthly calls are still posted on our web site, which we developed with the help of our own "CTO" David Baumann. Using open source software, freeware and other widely available technology, our extranet served us as a fun, real-world learning experience for members to enhance their familiarity with new technologies and the application of associated laws and regulations. It also has served the ACC as an example from which to draw in upgrading its technology platform for all ACC members.
We formed a subcommittee to address the ALI's Principles of the Law of Software Contracts. With input from the broader ITPEC and support from the ACC, the subcommittee published a detailed comment letter, held calls with the ALI’s Reporter, and continues to conduct advocacy.
We formed another subcommittee on privacy, led by Bart Wu, now our Privacy Vice Chair, that drafted a model privacy policy and terms of use. The ACC has adopted these for its broader web site.
We formed a subcommittee, led by Bill Cosden, ITPEC member and past President of the ACC’s San Francisco Chapter, to address Maine's new law barring the collection of personal information from children under 18 (federal law in COPPA currently applies to children under 13) and other similar expansive laws.
We obtained a new sponsor, TRUSTe, a leading privacy organization which runs the world's largest privacy seal program. Maureen Cooney, TRUSTe's Chief Privacy Officer and former head of the Privacy Office at the Department of Homeland Security, the highest-ranking privacy official in the United States Government, already graciously took time off from a vacation to educate our Committee during our September monthly call on the latest developments in social marketing (the deck for this presentation is on our web site). The addition of TRUSTe as our sponsor furthers the vision of our forward-looking prior Chair, John Thomas, in adding Privacy to our Committee's name and ambit.
Concluding the annual cycle at the ACC, it was great to see so many of you at the Annual Meeting, including at our Committee meeting and our ITPEC party, courtesy of Womble Carlyle. I thank Womble's Chairman Keith Vaughan, Womble’s privacy expert Jennifer M. Kashatus, and IP/IT lawyers Todd Harris and Sanjay Beri, Chief Client Development Officer Steve Bell, and our other gracious hosts at Womble for hosting a wonderful party, complete with a live band and stunning views, atop the Prudential Tower.
I am excited about the vision of our incoming leadership and new sponsor:
Chair: Harold Federow
Vice Chair: Kim Overs
CTO: David Baumann
Privacy Vice Chair: Bart Wu
Secretary: to be announced
Sponsor: TRUSTe, Maureen Cooney, Chief Privacy Officer and Vice President for Public Policy
I can unofficially and happily report that our incoming leadership is working hard behind the scenes to make next year at the ITPEC even better than this one.
I also want to give an extra special thanks to the ACC for its fantastic support throughout this year. Susanna McDonald, ACC's Associate General Counsel and Director of Legal Resources, rapidly responded to our every request - she does not seem to have the word "no" in her vocabulary. A very big thanks as well as to ACC's General Counsel Susan Hackett who supported our advocacy efforts, and to its Associate General Counsel Ellen Zavian, who supported our technology efforts, and to Nichole Opkins, Assistant General Counsel. I also welcome Paul Goatley, ACC’s Legal Resources Coordinator, as our new ACC liaison this year.
Most of all, thank you to you for participating in our Committee. I hope you continue to participate in the years to come and consider becoming even more actively involved. I for one look forward to staying involved in the ITPEC on a non-officer level.
As a reminder, our next Committee call is on November 5, 2009, when our incoming leadership will begin to present their agenda. Another presentation to be announced is being scheduled.
Best regards, Jeff Stern, Immediate Past Chair, ITPEC
Dear ITPEC members,
I write to briefly recap our achievements this year, to thank you for your ongoing participation, and to say farewell as Chair of the ITPEC.
This year we reinvigorated our monthly calls by refocusing the balance of the time from Committee matters to presentations by invited guests and ITPEC members. Highlights included Bruce Rogow's presentation on social networking, Iron Mountain on the facts and statistics of source code escrow, and most recently Maureen Cooney on social advertising. We covered efficiently Committee matters during the first few minutes of each call and in breakout sessions by ITPEC subcommittees and by ITPEC leadership.
Many of the decks for the presentations during our monthly calls are still posted on our web site, which we developed with the help of our own "CTO" David Baumann. Using open source software, freeware and other widely available technology, our extranet served us as a fun, real-world learning experience for members to enhance their familiarity with new technologies and the application of associated laws and regulations. It also has served the ACC as an example from which to draw in upgrading its technology platform for all ACC members.
We formed a subcommittee to address the ALI's Principles of the Law of Software Contracts. With input from the broader ITPEC and support from the ACC, the subcommittee published a detailed comment letter, held calls with the ALI’s Reporter, and continues to conduct advocacy.
We formed another subcommittee on privacy, led by Bart Wu, now our Privacy Vice Chair, that drafted a model privacy policy and terms of use. The ACC has adopted these for its broader web site.
We formed a subcommittee, led by Bill Cosden, ITPEC member and past President of the ACC’s San Francisco Chapter, to address Maine's new law barring the collection of personal information from children under 18 (federal law in COPPA currently applies to children under 13) and other similar expansive laws.
We obtained a new sponsor, TRUSTe, a leading privacy organization which runs the world's largest privacy seal program. Maureen Cooney, TRUSTe's Chief Privacy Officer and former head of the Privacy Office at the Department of Homeland Security, the highest-ranking privacy official in the United States Government, already graciously took time off from a vacation to educate our Committee during our September monthly call on the latest developments in social marketing (the deck for this presentation is on our web site). The addition of TRUSTe as our sponsor furthers the vision of our forward-looking prior Chair, John Thomas, in adding Privacy to our Committee's name and ambit.
Concluding the annual cycle at the ACC, it was great to see so many of you at the Annual Meeting, including at our Committee meeting and our ITPEC party, courtesy of Womble Carlyle. I thank Womble's Chairman Keith Vaughan, Womble’s privacy expert Jennifer M. Kashatus, and IP/IT lawyers Todd Harris and Sanjay Beri, Chief Client Development Officer Steve Bell, and our other gracious hosts at Womble for hosting a wonderful party, complete with a live band and stunning views, atop the Prudential Tower.
I am excited about the vision of our incoming leadership and new sponsor:
Chair: Harold Federow
Vice Chair: Kim Overs
CTO: David Baumann
Privacy Vice Chair: Bart Wu
Secretary: to be announced
Sponsor: TRUSTe, Maureen Cooney, Chief Privacy Officer and Vice President for Public Policy
I can unofficially and happily report that our incoming leadership is working hard behind the scenes to make next year at the ITPEC even better than this one.
I also want to give an extra special thanks to the ACC for its fantastic support throughout this year. Susanna McDonald, ACC's Associate General Counsel and Director of Legal Resources, rapidly responded to our every request - she does not seem to have the word "no" in her vocabulary. A very big thanks as well as to ACC's General Counsel Susan Hackett who supported our advocacy efforts, and to its Associate General Counsel Ellen Zavian, who supported our technology efforts, and to Nichole Opkins, Assistant General Counsel. I also welcome Paul Goatley, ACC’s Legal Resources Coordinator, as our new ACC liaison this year.
Most of all, thank you to you for participating in our Committee. I hope you continue to participate in the years to come and consider becoming even more actively involved. I for one look forward to staying involved in the ITPEC on a non-officer level.
As a reminder, our next Committee call is on November 5, 2009, when our incoming leadership will begin to present their agenda. Another presentation to be announced is being scheduled.
Best regards, Jeff Stern, Immediate Past Chair, ITPEC