Youth Privacy and Data Protection Infographic
The Youth Privacy and Data Protection 101 infographic provides an overview of the opportunities and risks for kids online, along with potential protection strategies. It also features young people’s voices from around the world on their preferences and attitudes toward privacy. Risks for youth online include well-known concerns such as coming across age-inappropriate content, encountering […]
Understanding Interconnected Local and Global Data Flows Infographic
International data flows have been top of mind in the past year for digital rights advocates, companies, and regulators, particularly international transfers following the Schrems II judgment of the Court of Justice of the EU in July 2020. As data protection authorities assess how to use technical safeguards and contractual measures to support data flows […]
Strong Data Encryption Protects Everyone Infographic
The Strong Data Encryption Protects Everyone infographic illustrates how strong encryption protects individuals, enterprises, and the government. FPF’s guide also highlights key risks that arise when encryption safeguards are undermined – risks that can expose sensitive health and financial records undermine the security of critical infrastructure, and enable interception of officials’ confidential communications. FPF’s infographic […]
Understanding the World of Geolocation Data Infographic
In this infographic, FPF demonstrates how mobile devices, such as smartphones, interpret signals from their surroundings – including GPS satellites, cell towers, Wi-Fi networks, and Bluetooth – to generate a precise location measurement (latitude and longitude). This measurement is provided by the mobile operating system to mobile apps through a Location Services API when they […]
Privacy 2020: 10 Privacy Risks and 10 Privacy Enhancing Technologies to Watch in the Next Decade Report & Infographic
FPF published a white paper co-authored by CEO Jules Polonetsky and hackylawyER Founder Elizabeth Renieris to help corporate officers, nonprofit leaders, and policymakers better understand privacy risks that will grow in prominence during the 2020s, as well as rising technologies that will be used to help manage privacy through the decade. Leaders must understand the basics […]
Personal Data and the Organization: Stewardship and Strategy Infographic
Personal data – used lawfully, fairly, and transparently – is central to helping organizations achieve their missions. Today, Boards of Directors, CEOs, policymakers, and others need to understand the wide range of data inputs, the broad scope of risks and benefits, and how privacy and ethics are central to an organization’s ability to fulfill its leaders’ […]
Facial Detection Technologies Report & Infographic
The infographic, Understanding Facial Detection, Characterization, and Recognition Technologies, along with Privacy Principles for Facial Recognition Technology in Consumer Applications Report helps businesses and policymakers better understand and evaluate the growing use of face-based biometric technology systems when used for consumer applications. The consumer-facing applications of facial recognition technology continue to evolve, and the technology […]
Privacy Best Practices for Consumer Genetic Testing Services
The Future of Privacy Forum, along with leading consumer genetic and personal genomic testing companies 23andMe, Ancestry, Helix, MyHeritage, and Habit, released Privacy Best Practices for Consumer Genetic Testing Services. These companies have been joined by African Ancestry and Living DNA in supporting the Best Practices as a clear articulation of how leading firms can build […]
Unfairness By Algorithm: Distilling the Harms of Automated Decision-Making Report & Infographic
Analysis of personal data can be used to improve services, advance research, and combat discrimination. However, such analysis can also create valid concerns about differential treatment of individuals or harmful impacts on vulnerable communities. These concerns can be amplified when automated decision-making uses sensitive data (such as race, gender, or familial status), impacts protected classes, or affects individuals’ eligibility for housing, employment, or other core services. When seeking to identify harms, it is important to appreciate the context of interactions between individuals, companies, and governments—including the benefits provided by automated decision-making frameworks, and the fallibility of human decision-making.
Financial Data Localization: Conflicts and Consequences Infographic
How has the growing trend of global financial data localization laws affected financial institutions handling difficult questions of data privacy? What have been the practical impacts of these laws? FPF addresses these questions in a new info-graphic: “Financial Data Localization: Conflicts and Consequences.”