Georgetown Hosts Lawful Access to the Cloud Seminar
On Tuesday, Georgetown’s Law School hosted a Seminar titled “Lawful Access to the Cloud.” The seminar’s panelists grappled with how to find the right balance between civil liberties and legitimate law enforcement needs to access data in the cloud;. The morning’s first panel focused on lawful access to data in the U.S., and the second […]
FPF Responds to WH Announcement on Green Button Initiative
WASHINGTON – Today, the White House announced that 9 new utilities have committed to adopting the industry-led Green Button Initiative, joining 6 previously announced commitments, for a total of 27 million homes committed. The statement below can be attributed to Jules Polonetsky, Director and Co-Chair of the Future of Privacy Forum. “Offering consumers access to […]
Swire Presents at FBI/DOD Sponsored Facial Recognition Forum
On Wednesday, March 14 FPF Senior Fellow Peter Swire gave a talk on “Facial Recognition by the Government: Privacy and Civil Liberties Issues.” The talk took place at the third installment in the U.S. Government Facial Recognition Legal Series. Wednesday’s forum was titled “Striking the Balance – A Government Approach to Facial Recognition Privacy and […]
Chris Wolf Column in Slate Explores Tension Between EU Privacy Interests and Other Legitimate Interests
FPF co-chair Chris Wolf has written a column for SLATE that illustrates the tension in the EU between privacy law and other interests, as highlighted in a recent German episode. The piece links the recent episode to the current consideration of the proposed EU Regulation. For further context and a link, see here.
Meeting with the FTC in a Simulated Informal Investigation
On Thursday, March 8, 2012 at the IAPP Global Privacy Summit, FPF’s Christopher Wolf sat down with Christopher N. Olsen, Assistant Director in the Division of Privacy and Identity Protection at the FTC. Together, they hashed out the do’s and don’ts of when companies might be subject to FTC enforcement. The clear answer is to […]