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[…]  and the ACLU, and industry including the App Developers Alliance, Intuit, AT&T, Verizon, CTIA,  SIIA and the Internet Commerce Coalition, came together in July to support a code of conduct for mobile app developer transparency. Now, the NTIA multi-stakeholder process is taking a lot of criticism in the press.  It didn’t go far enough.  […]

[…] the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) announced its support for a model proposed by FTC Chief Technologist Steve Bellovin calling for a special “flag” to be passed between companies that would indicate the child directed status of a site.  FPF has been working with a number of stakeholders to refine a technical proposal that […]

[…] “A ‘food label’ type approach to a privacy notice will give consumers a standardized way to get key privacy information at a glance and will help consumers better understand how apps collect and share data.” The sample notices below show examples of implementations of the short notice developed by a number of the multi-stakeholders. […]

FPF begins work with technology companies, privacy advocates, and regulators to develop a code of conduct aimed at protecting consumers’ privacy.   

[…] Forum.  “By being transparent about what is going on, location companies and retailers can make sure shoppers understand the benefit of the bargain. “New technologies are helping retailers better understand what customers want and make shopping more convenient for everyone,” said Will Smith, co-founder and CEO, Euclid. “Privacy has always been a priority as we’ve […]

[…] communicate their status to third parties.  FTC Chief Technologist Steve Bellovin proposed a promising model several months ago, calling for a special site flag to be passed between companies that would indicate the child directed status of a site.  FPF has been working with a number of stakeholders to refine a technical proposal that […]

[…] Google and Yahoo already offer settings managers for users to select who sees what data. More organizations must think carefully about how best to strike the balance between offering user-friendly and comprehensive controls. At the same time, transparency also allows experts to police companies in order to monitor, expose, and prevent practices we do […]

[…] El Emam or the use of differential privacy as proposed by Dr. Cynthia Dwork. For nonpublic databases, however, strong de-identification techniques may not strike the right balance between data utility and privacy.  When nonpublic databases are protected by both technical and administrative controls, reasonable de-identification techniques, as opposed to very strong de-identification techniques, may […]

[…] develop enforceable codes of conduct implementing these principles for specific industries.  On July 15, 2012, NTIA-convened the first meeting of a multistakeholder process with the goal of developing a code of conduct to provide transparency about how companies providing applications and interactive services for mobile devices handle personal data.  FPF is an active participant in this […]

[…] to harm consumers as well as software and online service providers. Interoperability in practice is often difficult and costly, yet the draft Regulation appears to mandate new code from software and service providers.  In addition, the draft Regulation ignores years of wisdom from antitrust law about how to address lock-in problems – the high […]