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The Future of Privacy Forum announces the appointment of Malavika Raghavan as Senior Fellow for India, expanding our Global Privacy team to one of the key jurisdictions for the future of privacy and data protection law.  Malavika is a thought leader and a lawyer working on interdisciplinary research, focusing on the impacts of digitisation on […]

Stacey Gray, Pollyanna Sanderson & Samuel Adams In the absence of federal privacy legislation, U.S. states are weighing in. In Virginia, the “Consumer Data Protection Act” (“CDPA”) (HB 2307 / SB 1392) could be signed into law within weeks, and if passed, would take effect on Jan. 1, 2023. If the law passes, it would […]

On November 12, 2020, FPF Policy Counsels Drs. Rachele Hendricks-Sturrup and Sara Jordan presented privacy-by-design alongside human-centered design concepts during the 2020 CCSQ World Usability Day virtual conference. This presentation followed Drs. Hendricks-Sturrup’s and Jordan’s July 2020 scientific position paper presented at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2020, entitled “Patient- Reported Outcomes: A Privacy-Centric and Federated Approach […]

By Caroline Hopland, Hunter Dorwart and Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna Last week, on December 1st, the newly amended Privacy Act 2020 (Act) of New Zealand came into force. The act was passed by the New Zealand Parliament on June 20, 2020 and made significant changes to the 1993 law, Privacy Act 1993. The amendments cover a broad range of topics including the […]

[…] video may seem like the closest alternative, educators should carefully weigh the benefits and risks posed to privacy and equity, from increased data collection to the permanent documentation of deeply personal aspects of students’ home lives. Teaching students about privacy and how to ingrain it into their online lives. The shift to online learning […]

[…] to use the element to enable the access, exchange, or use of EHI.” Web and mobile applications (e.g. direct-to-consumer apps) that rely on application programming interfaces ( APIs) fall within the definition and scope of “interoperability element.” Privacy considerations emerge, however, when web and mobile applications interface with EHI systems, especially when the applications are run […]

The Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) and 23 other education, healthcare, disability rights, data protection, and civil liberties organizations today released Education During a Pandemic: Principles for Student Data Privacy and Equity (available here). The Principles offer 10 guiding recommendations for schools as they rely on new technologies and data to facilitate remote, in-person, or […]

By Katelyn Ringrose, Christopher Wolf Diversity Law Fellow at the Future of Privacy Forum, and Christopher Wood, Executive Director of LGBT Tech, with thanks to Connor Colson, FPF Policy Intern.  LGBTQ+ rights are, and have always been, linked with privacy. Over the years, privacy-invasive laws, practices, and norms have been used to oppress LGBTQ+ individuals […]

[…] and dynamic area. One example is the sharing of micromobility data between companies and cities through the Mobility Data Specification (MDS). MDS is a set of open-source APIs that allows the data from a vehicle to be shared – almost in real-time – with city governments, typically the DOT. A big part of my […]

[…] the financial sector, panelists discussed Open Banking efforts in the United States and the UK. Open Banking refers to the use of open Application Programming Interfaces ( APIs) to enable third-party financial service providers to access consumer transactions and other financial data from banks through new financial apps and services. According to Bill Roberts […]