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[…] the greatest significance. On the horizon is a possible international policy solution around “interoperable,” or shared legal concepts. President Barack Obama and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) promoted this approach. The extent of EU–U.S. data privacy interoperability, however, remains to be seen. In exploring this issue, this article analyzes the respective legal identities constructed […]

[…] Trade Commission’s PrivacyCon. FPF will subsequently publish a printed digest of summaries of the winning papers for distribution to policymakers, privacy professionals, and the public. PPPM is free, open to the general public, and widely attended. To RSVP, please visit privacypapersforpolicymakers.eventbrite.com. This event is supported by National Science Foundation Grant No. 1654085.  Any opinions, findings […]

The Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) released its 2018 Code of Conduct yesterday, consolidating the rules for online and mobile behavioral advertising (interest-based advertising). NAI, a non-profit organization in Washington, DC, is the leading self-regulatory association for digital advertising, with over 100 members and a formalized internal review mechanism.

[…] within the tech sector.” A progressive political group “filed FOIA requests seeking the publicly available student directories to get student cell phone numbers at every one of Virginia’s 39 public colleges. Of those, 18 schools, including Tech and Radford, complied.” This will lead to legislation banning directory information disclosures for this purpose next spring. […]

[…] Protect Their Students & the Constitution,” Berkman-Klein Center, March 6, 2017. Program to collect information relating to nonimmigrant foreign students and other exchange program participants, 8 U.S. Code § 1372. Retention and Reporting of Information for F, J, and M Nonimmigrants; Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS), 67 FR 76255. U.S. Department of […]

[…] the Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT), KU Leuven Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Professor of Computer Science, Chairholder of the UNESCO Chair in Data Privacy, and ICREA-Acadèmia Researcher, Universitat Rovira i Virgili Jaap-Henk Hoepman, Professor in the Digital Security group at the Institute for Computing and Information Sciences and Scientific Director of the Privacy & Identity Lab, Radboud University […]

[…] they are empowered to shape responsible decisions, we’ll help make sure that we have a world that is not Orwellian but that uses technology so that we have better health, more free time, more time to do important things like spend it with our family and be healthy and achieve great things.” LISTEN Read Transcript

[…] Learning.” The Economic Times also reported “Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates try opposite paths to education tech in India.” “Schools are watching students’ social media, raising questions about free speech” and privacy, via a feature on PBS NewsHour on June 20. This relates to privacy and surveillance questions I discussed in my report on that […]

[…] Shadow Brokers. An initial lesson is to remind us that leaks can and do happen from intelligence agencies, from Edward Snowden, through the publication of CIA hacker code, to the Shadow Brokers release of NSA hacker tools. In an era where leaks happen at scale and get disseminated globally, agencies face a “declining half […]

[…] change is material, a company may not apply it retroactively without consumers’ express, affirmative consent. These are just some of the baseline issues that are worth understanding before beginning to think through the important commitments genetics companies can make to promote trust and responsible data use in this emerging industry.  Stay tuned for that effort!