Privacy Policy and Implementation

Privacy Seminar Speaker:
    Donna Fickett
    MITRE Corporation

Tuesday, March 26, 2013
3:30 - 4:45PM in 3120 AV Williams Building

The next visitor to our privacy honors seminar, HONR239R, will be Donna Fickett, who talk on Privacy Policy and Implementation. She will address the challenge to businesses and government agencies who seek to comply with both the letter and spirit of privacy laws while building trust among constituents and supporting mission objectives.

Donna Fickett, CIPP/US, CIPP/G, is Lead Enterprise Business Strategist at the MITRE Corporation, focusing on operational implementation of privacy requirements, privacy strategy and policy development. Prior to joining MITRE in 2010, Mrs. Fickett worked in the office of Information Protection and Privacy at Marriott International, Inc.  In this capacity, she addressed global commercial privacy topics, including advising software development efforts on privacy integration, EUDPD Safe Harbor certification, incident response, policy development, employee awareness, and internal and external compliance evaluations and risk assessments.  Mrs. Fickett began her career at Martin Marietta Corporation (now Lockheed Martin) and directed software development and program management efforts at Freddie Mac and Marriott International, Inc., prior to joining Marriott’s privacy team.

As always, any student in the Honors College who has an interest in meeting our seminar speakers is welcome to attend class as our guest. Details on the course are at http://doubletap.cs.umd.edu/purtilo/239R/

Prof. Jim Purtilo   (purtilo@cs.umd.edu)