There’s A List?
I received the following in the mail the other week and while I was initially amused that I was getting this without asking for it, it took my wife pointing out the irony of there being an actual directory at all:
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Yes, ironic, but not painfully. Do they have policies about how one gets into the directory (or stays out)? Opt-in or opt-out? Do they have a policy about who gets it?
The directory is only supposed to be made available to mebers. And while, I used to be a member of iapp when someone gave me a free membership, but my membership has been expired for several months now, so I’m not clear why I’m still getting a copy of the directory and the newsletter. I don’t recall if I was asked if I wanted to be in the directory or not, but from the forms on the website, it appears to be an opt-in.
I went to an IAPP conference and got printed on a list of conference attendees along with associated organizations (yes, this is the IAPP). They also printed the organization that had sponsored my presence there – I had this assocation removed from my nametag, but there it appeared in a ‘list of attendees’.
There may have been an opt-out, but I never saw it.
If Black Hat tried that even once (another conference I go to), I expect the attendees would not be too amused.
EO