When handling personal data, organizations must utilize both best practices for privacy and cybersecurity to ensure that it is protected, sound, and treated in line with individual and societal expectations.
FPF’s work on privacy and cybersecurity focuses on the overlap between the two areas, including how different global laws and policy regimes tackle that overlap. Through FPF’s Privacy and Cybersecurity Expert Group, FPF facilitates the coordination and collaboration of privacy and cybersecurity experts to promote common goals, strategies, and understanding.
FPF’s Cybersecurity Advisory Committee comprises top cyber and privacy executives at industry-leading companies and civil society and academia representatives.
Advisory committee members include:
- Emily Hancock, Cloudflare
- Stephenie Handler, Gibson Dunn (Chair)
- David Hoffman, Duke University, Sanford School of Public Policy
- Anitha Ibrahim, Amazon Web Services
- Andy Serwin, DLA Piper
- Chad Sniffen, National Network to End Domestic Violence
- Melanie Tiano, T-Mobile
- Heng Xu, American University
ETSI’s consumer IoT cybersecurity ‘conformance assessments’: parallels with the AI Act
In early September 2021, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) published its European Standard to lay down baseline cybersecurity requirements for Internet of Things (IoT) consumer products (ETSI EN 303 645 V2.1.1). The Standard is a recommendation to manufacturers to develop IoT devices securely from the outset. It also provides an internationally recognized benchmark – […]
New White Paper Explores Privacy and Security Risk to Machine Learning Systems
FPF and Immuta Examine Approaches That Can Limit Informational or Behavioral Harms WASHINGTON, D.C. – September 20, 2019 – The Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) released a white paper, WARNING SIGNS: The Future of Privacy and Security in an Age of Machine Learning, exploring how machine learning systems can be exposed to new privacy and […]
Warning Signs: Identifying Privacy and Security Risks to Machine Learning Systems
FPF is working with Immuta and others to explain the steps machine learning creators can take to limit the risk that data could be compromised or a system manipulated.
What is 5G Cell Technology? How Will It Affect Me?
The leap from 3G to 4G technology brought with it faster data transfer speeds, which supported widespread adoption of data cloud and streaming services, video conferencing, and Internet of Things devices such as digital home assistants and smartwatches. 5G technology has the potential to enable another wave of smart devices: always connected and always communicating to provide faster, more personalized services.