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Russell Mickler, Principal Consultant, has over 17 years of professional experience leading and managing IT organizations.
HP Wins 2006 Truste Privacy Award
Written on September 22, 2006
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Opinion: The Guru Speaks…
Around the time that it was privately revealed that HP Chairwoman Patrician Dunn was using phone and email records to spy on her board of directors to locate a leaker, TRUSTe and the Ponemon Institute announced HP to be the Most Trusted Company for Privacy in 2006. They were handed the award on March 7, 2006 in Washington D.C.
According to the TRUSTe press release, here’s what David Lear, an HP Vice President for Corporate, Social, and Environmental Responsibility had to say:
“HP believes the protection of privacy is a fundamental measure of HP’s integrity, both as a business and a global citizen. We support that belief with a global, company-wide privacy organization to ensure our policies are enforced. Keeping up world-class privacy standards is a matter of constant diligence. We hope to lead by example and help create a safer Internet. TRUSTe is helping to raise these issues in a positive way through these recognition programs.”
Whew, these kinds of disconnects can be embarrassing, eh? Keep working on that constant diligence, David; you can probably file that award under “Privacy” – next to the folders containing the indictment of your directors. Now that is leadership by example.