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Monday, October 17, 4:45PM
University Events Room
Glickman Family Library, 7th floor
Portland USM Campus (map)

Data has become both a strategic asset and a potentially crippling liability in the 21st century economy. As consumers grow increasingly concerned about the stewardship of their data, around the world policymakers, judiciaries, academics and advocates are questioning boundaries and considering risks, such as:

• What is private information and what is not?
• How should organizations explain what they're doing with data?
• What should happen when data is stolen or misused?
• In an era of globalization, how do we manage the diverse social and legal expectations?

These questions are urgent because they come at a time when the economy increasingly depends on consumer willingness to share personal information. Mr. Hughes will address these and other important issues based on his experience as the president and CEO of the world's largest association of privacy professionals, and his research as co-author of Privacy Law in Marketing, a continuously updated subscription-based CCH legal reference volume.

Mr. Hughes argues that a new, holistic ethos of data environmentalism is needed. He will discuss evidence that organizations are coping with growing tension between innovation, privacy and security. They are discovering that the use and protection of data has broad impacts on reputations and bottom lines.
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J. Trevor Hughes is the President and CEO of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP, the world’s largest association of privacy professionals.
Hughes is an experienced attorney in privacy, technology and marketing law, having testified before the U.S. Congress Commerce Committee, the Senate Commerce Committee, the Federal Trade Commission, the Home Affairs Committee of the British Parliament, and the EU Parliament on issues of privacy, surveillance, spam and privacy-sensitive technologies.

Mr. Hughes previously served as the executive director of the Network Advertising Initiative, a leading online privacy trade association, and the Email Sender and Provider Coalition, a trade association working on e-mail policy and practices. Prior to these roles, Mr. Hughes was director of privacy and corporate counsel for Engage, a leading online media and software company, and corporate counsel for UnumProvident, where he focused on legal issues associated with advertising and online insurance transactions.

An adjunct professor of law at the University of Maine School of Law, he has lectured on privacy at Harvard, MIT, the London School of Economics, Boston College Law School, Georgetown University and Northeastern University. A frequent speaker on privacy issues, Mr. Hughes has been featured on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition, the PBS Nightly Business Report, BBC Radio, and in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, PCWorld, Washington Post, Boston Globe and Business Week.  

A native of Canada, Hughes holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from the University of Massachusetts and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Maine School of Law. He is a member of the first class of Certified Information Privacy Professionals (CIPP).

The colloquium is sponsored by the
L.L. Bean/Lee Surace Endowed Chair in Accounting.
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USM Professor Jeffrey Gramlich was appointed the first L.L. Bean/Lee Surace Chair in Accounting in the USM School of Business in 2003. His appointment was made possible by a $1 million gift from L.L. Bean, Inc., its board chair, Leon Gorman, his wife Lisa, Jim and Maureen Gorman, and Tom Gorman, who established the chair in memory of L.L. Bean CFO Lee Surace '73, '81, who died in March of 2001. Surace was chair of the USM School of Business' Advisory Council and was a frequent guest lecturer.

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