Justice Scalia’s Remarks About Privacy

Justice Scalia’s remarks about privacy, which came in response to Jules’ call for privacy advances at the IAT Law Conference, have been causing some controversy!

Check it out here at the blog of FPF advisory board member professor Dan Solove and at Above the Law.

CTO and CIO set. Next please, a CPO!

We now have respected and savvy technologists in place in government as CTO and CIO. Jules will be speaking at RSA this week to CIOs and CSOs about the key relationship between them and their CPO, an issue that has become an increasing corporate focus. With the many federal privacy issues in play right now, we now need a Chief Privacy Officer at the most senior government level to help ensure trust about user data. Consider the skepticism over putting NSA in charge of federal government cyber-security – even though NSA may have the best technical security expertise, critics have expressed concerns about NSA playing this role due to past government privacy controversies. An empowered CPO with clout (or a Chief Counselor for Privacy, as a version of this role was called when Peter Swire held it during the Clinton years) could bolster the level of faith in government needed to ensure that every agency is aware that the President wants the oversight, checks and balances, and legal processes in place that ensure both security and respect for privacy and civil liberties.

There are great agency CPOs in the intelligence agencies and elsewhere in government and the recent appointment of Mary Ellen Callahan at Homeland Security was a great move. But the Obama Administration could continue its record of innovation by the appointment of a CPO to partner with our new CTO and CIO.

European Commission and Privacy

The European Commission is organising a personal data use and protection conference to look at new challenges for privacy. Get details here:

Justice and Home Affairs – Newsroom – Events.

Who are the Fiercest Privacy Advocates?

Increasingly, leading advertisers and marketers who want to see digital marketing succeed are the leading advocates for responsible practices. See this from former Internet Advertising Bureau head Greg Stuart:

“Fight to the death those who want to use/abuse the medium for short-term gain but long-term loss, even if a marketer. Attack any entity trying to participate in mobile who disrespects the consumer or outright annoys them. Aggressively protect consumer trust, whether it be around issues of privacy or other issues of transparency to consumer.”

http://mansavesdog.wordpress.com/2009/04/10/mobile-advertising-maybe-next-year-or-the-year-after-that/

April 9, 2009 – Facebook at 200 Million, InternetNews

 

 

FPF Welcomes New Sponsors

We are thrilled to formally welcome today several additional sponsors. AOL, eBay, Facebook, Intel, The Nielsen Company, Verizon and Yahoo have joined AT&T as supporters of the Future of Privacy Forum and will be working with us on an exciting research project. Stay tuned for more details to come very soon about this project, as well as news about several additional supporters.