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Federal Trade Commission officials spent the day touting a newsettlement with Facebook, with FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz saying the company now will be “obligated” to keep its privacy promises. But in reality, the agreement is likely to have little, if any, actual impact on Facebook users

Federal Trade Commission officials spent the day touting a new settlement with Facebook, with FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz saying the company now will be “obligated” to keep its privacy promises. But in reality, the agreement is likely to have little, if any, actual impact on Facebook users.

Despite promising that they won’t reveal users’ personal data, some of the most highly trafficked Web sites transmit usernames, email addresses, addresses, and even birth dates to ad networks and other third parties, a new study confirms

We loved this article by Robert Ellis Smith, noted privacy expert and publisher, Privacy Journal, and republish it here with his permission.  Privacy Journal offers our readers a beginning rate of $65 for the next year, a 50 percent discount.  The newsletter is available in hard copy by U.S. mail or pdf by email.  Please place […]

WASHINGTON – The Federal Trade Commission released their preliminary staff report on “Protecting Consumer Privacy in an Era of Rapid Change: A Proposed Framework for Businesses and Policymakers” on December 1. The Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) released the following statement in response to the report. This statement should be attributed to Jules Polonetsky and/or Christopher Wolf, co-chairs of the Future of Privacy Forum:

[…] years, was defeated by Morgan Griffith, a Virginia state legislator. Boucher, along with Congressman Rick Stearns (R-FL) circulated a draft comprehensive privacy bill earlier this year and promised to introduce it after harmonizing it with the bill introduced by Congressman Bobby Rush (D-IL). The election result means that Boucher no longer will chair the […]

The Future of Privacy Forum is proud to be a sponsor of Tech Policy Central’s new pii2010 conference, which takes place August 17 – 19 in Seattle, WA. pii2010 (privacy identity innovation) will explore how emerging technologies and business models are impacting data creation, sharing and aggregation, and how to strike a balance between protecting sensitive information and […]

The following is a guest post to the FPF Blog from Ira Rubinstein, a Senior Fellow at the Information Law Institute and Adjunct Professor at New York University School of Law In early May, Reps. Rick Boucher (D-VA) and Cliff Stearns (R-FL) released a discussion draft of comprehensive privacy legislation. The draft bill would require […]

A couple of weeks ago, on the FPF facebook page, we posted our thoughts about a comment Alexander Macgillivray, Twitter’s general counsel, made about the decision to name Twitter’s “privacy policy” as such and not as “public policy,” based upon the requirements of California law. We finally had a chance to take a closer look […]