1.   At a company like Zero-Knowledge, Perrin says, picking the chief privacy officer is a critical decision.

2.   At companies for which privacy is the core business, the role of chief privacy officer is especially crucial.

3.   Atlanta-based EarthLink Inc. is the latest to join the trend, appointing its former legal director and customer service manager as its first chief privacy officer.

4.   Atlanta-based Earthlink Inc. is the latest to join the trend, appointing its former legal director and former customer service manager as its first chief privacy officer.

5.   Avoiding a data disaster requires more than just posting a privacy policy on your Web site or appointing a chief privacy officer.

6.   A conference delegate, Stephanie Perrin, chief privacy officer at a Canadian company, Zero-Knowledge Systems.

7.   But we have seen a tremendous increase in the number of companies that recognize the importance of having a chief privacy officer and of posting good privacy policies.

8.   Chief privacy officers are not just for Internet companies.

9.   EARTHLINK APPOINTS PRIVACY OFFICER Earthlink, the second-largest Internet service provider, has joined a growing crowd of companies that have appointed chief privacy officers.

10.   Harriet Pearson, the chief privacy officer at IBM, compares the current moment to the days before most companies realized they needed corporate officers to oversee environmental concerns.