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Discussion Draft SEPTEMBER 2024 BY AARON MASSEY Technologist and Senior Policy Analyst for Advertising Technologies and Platforms, FPF Forward D ata clean rooms are an increasingly discussed tool in industry, utilized in advertising and marketing, health care, and academic research, as well as for regulatory compliance. Leading thinkers have already started to analyze the capabilities […]

FPF submitted comments to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) regarding their age assurance exploratory consultation. In general, FPF considers the OPC is appropriately approaching age assurance in a nuanced, informed, and balanced way, especially by highlighting in its preliminary positions: the privacy risks associated to age assurance systems, that age assurance […]

India enacted the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (DPDPA) on August 11, 2023, a comprehensive data protection law culminating from a landmark Supreme Court decision recognizing a constitutional right to privacy in India, and discussions on multiple drafts spanning over half a decade.  The law comes at a time when, globally, there has been […]

The European Commission published its second Report on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on July 25, 2024, assessing the progress of its impact and effectiveness of application since the Commission’s first Report published in June 2020. The second Report acknowledges relative success of the GDPR in protecting individuals and supporting businesses, while also highlighting […]

[…] software developer conferences. For third-party application developers to deliver new tools with the best features for the lucrative fall quarter, they must have access to all the APIs and tools by the summer before. This has meant that early summer has become known as a time for announcements from the major big tech platforms. […]

[…] performance) being collected or shared? Have parents/guardians provided informed consent for any student-identifying information used? Is student participation voluntary, and are opt-out options clearly provided? Oversight and Documentation Is there a designated staff member responsible for reviewing and approving fundraising campaigns? Are all fundraising efforts logged, including platform used, data shared, and campaign duration? […]

[…] 39 Article 29 Data Protection Working Party, Opinion 02/2012 on facial recognition in online and mobile services (Mar. 22, 2012), available at http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data – protection/article – 29/ documentation/opinion – recommendation/files/2012/wp192_en.pdf ( last acce ssed Sept. 1, 2015). 40 See https://www.priv.gc.ca/information/research – recherche/2013/fr_201303_e.pdf . MISSION Future of Privacy Forum is a nonprofit organization that serves […]

[…] least one distracted driver. 30% involved at least one alcohol-impaired driver. Overview of Motor Vehicle Crashes in 2020 , Nat’l Highway Traffic Safety Admin., 12-18 (2022) https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/ Api/Public/ViewPublication/813266 10 How Eurovia USA empowered their drivers to reduce unsafe mobile usage and increase seatbelt usage , Samsara, https://www.samsara.com/ customers/eurovia-usa (last visited June 4, 2024). 11 […]

[…] e.g., Priyanka Chatterjee, et al., Overview of FLEDGE Services, GitHub, Apr. 22, 2024, https://github.com/privacysandbox/protected-auction- services-docs/blob/main/trusted_services_overview.md (last accessed Jun. 21, 2024) (Google’s proposed specification); Erik Anderson, Ad Selection API details, GitHub, Mar. 5, 2024, https://github.com/WICG/privacy-preserving-ads/blob/main/API%20Details.md (last accessed Jun. 21, 2024) (Microsoft’s proposed specification). 24 In many contexts, on-device processing can offer greater computational speeds insof […]

[…] the types of high-risk AI systems currently deployed, and how known or reasonably foreseeable risks of algorithmic discrimination are being managed. Developers are primarily tasked with providing documentation to help deployers fulfill their duties. This includes high-level summaries of training data types, system limitations, purposes, performance evaluations, and risk mitigation measures for algorithmic discrimination. […]