The survey also showed that firms may be looking for services beyond traditional advice from experts. New entrants to the list of top vote-getters include service providers, a certification firm and a professional association. Among them:
• San Francisco-based Truste is the provider of the popular Web-privacy seal and a number of other privacy-verification products and services.
• Portland, Ore.-based ID Experts and Austin-based Debix provide data-breach response services.
• Toronto-based Nymity provides an information portal for privacy content.
•Seattle-based MediaPro offers computer-based training for privacy and security.
The International Association of Privacy Professionals organizes the best-attended privacy conferences and offers the CIPP certification for the privacy profession.
Table 1: Top firms for privacy advice
Firm | Voting Tier |
---|---|
† Hunton & Williams | 1 |
† Morrison & Foerster | 2 |
† Foley & Lardner | 2 |
† Privacy & Information Management Services | 2 |
‡ Samet Privacy | 2 |
† Hogan Lovells | 2 |
‡ PricewaterhouseCoopers | 2 |
‡ Ernst & Young | 2 |
† Covington & Burling | 2 |
‡ Corporate Privacy Group | 3 |
‡ Deloitte & Touche | 3 |
‡ Rebecca Herold & Associates | 3 |
† Wiley Rein | 3 |
IAPP | 3 |
† Infolaw Group | 3 |
Ponemon Institute | 3 |
† Baker & Mckenzie | 3 |
Truste | 3 |
† Drinker Biddle & Reath | 3 |
† Field Fisher Waterhouse | 3 |
† Bird & Bird | 3 |
Nymity | 3 |
‡ Mitre | 3 |
† Oldaker Belair & Wittie | 3 |
Debix | 3 |
† DLA Piper | 3 |
ID Experts | 3 |
MediaPro | 3 |
† Venable | 3 |