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Litigation

Oct. 9, 2007

Fast-Growing Post Melds Compliance, Strategy

Michelle Dennedy is chief privacy officer at Sun Microsystems. Companies worldwide employ 4,000 privacy officers, a position that hardly existed a decade ago. They do not have to be attorneys, but many are, because of the legal knowledge needed to comply with a thicket of state, federal and international laws and regulations intended to protect data.

By Craig Anderson
Daily Journal Staff Writer

      MENLO PARK - A job that did not exist a little more than a decade ago has become one of the fastest-growing positions for lawyers today.
      Chief privacy officers do not have to be attorneys, but many are, because of the legal knowledge needed to comply with a thicket of state, federal and international laws and regulations intended to prot...

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