Report: A Practical Privacy Paradigm for Wearables

The Future of Privacy’s new report, A Practical Privacy Paradigm for Wearables, examines how wearable technologies are challenging traditional applications of the Fair Information Privacy Principles (FIPPs) and why policymaking in this area requires a forward-thinking, flexible approach to these concerns. The FIPPs have long provided the foundation for consumer privacy protection in this country, and still embody core privacy values. However, a rigid application of them may not always be feasible in the fast-paced world of wearables and the nascent IOT. Both the technologies and social norms around these devices are developing quickly, and holding innovative new designs and data uses to privacy standards developed for other industries could stymie the next technological revolution.