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[…] reports on data brokers, the Internet of Things, Cross Device Tracking, Big Data, mobile security, and kids’ apps. Prior to being named Director, Jessica served in a number of senior roles at the FTC, including Deputy Director of the Bureau, Associate Director of the Division of Financial Practices, and Acting Associate Director of the […]

[…] a back door in, that back door’s for everybody, for good guys and bad guys.”  Strong encryption is permitted even under the 1994 U.S. law that requires phone companies to build their networks to respond to court orders.  As the ACLU’s Chris Soghoian has emphasized, that law “explicitly protected the rights of companies that […]

[…] information without explicit permission, the ability to delete their information, and promises to only use the data for the expected purposes.  FPF has begun discussions with a number of consumer genetics companies and hopes to share best practices guidance in the upcoming months. But before we begin, there are some useful lessons that FPF […]

[…] of a fully homomorphic cryptosystem have been dancing in cryptographers’ heads for thirty years. I never expected to see one. It will be years before a sufficient number of cryptographers examine the algorithm that we can have any confidence that the scheme is secure, but — practicality be damned — this is an amazing […]

During the International Association of Privacy Professional’s Global Privacy Summit 2017, FPF’s CEO, Jules Polonetsky, took a moment to speak with NBC 4 Los Angeles about the privacy implications of granting apps permission to track your location.

[…] as the Shapley value, previously applied to measure influence in voting. Further, since transparency reports could compromise privacy, we explore the transparency-privacy tradeoff and prove that a number of useful transparency reports can be made differentially private with very little addition of noise. Our empirical validation with standard machine learning algorithms demonstrates that QII […]

[…] the visual here and below. The 2016 Mobile Apps Study underscores the necessity of strong Best Practices for health and wellness data. The App Study revealed that while the number of apps that provide privacy policies continues its upward trend from our previous surveys in 2011 and 2012, health and fitness apps – which often control […]

[…] continues its upward trend from our previous surveys in 2011 and 2012. But health and fitness apps – which may access sensitive, physiological data collected by sensors on a mobile phone, wearable, or other device – do worse than average at providing privacy policies. Only 70% of top health and fitness apps had a privacy policy (6% […]

[…] to understand at the point of sale whether they will be asked to consent to the toy’s collection of their child’s information. Finally, the paper details a number of important security steps that leading toy manufacturers are taking; Senator Nelson’s report mentions several of these steps, for example, implementing strong security standards (HTTPS / […]

[…] When users selected the “While Using the App” option, Uber only received location data when the app was actually open and in the foreground of a user’s phone – i.e. when a user was actively calling an Uber or checking the location of the vehicle on the map. As a result, key information about […]