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The Future of Privacy Forum tracks student privacy news very closely, and shares relevant news stories with our newsletter subscribers.* Approximately every month, we post “The Top 10,” a blog with our top student privacy stories.

[…] 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 […]

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[…] 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 […]

[…] of the 35,092 fatalities in U.S. motor vehicle accidents last year could be attributed to human error. NHTSA is right to recognize that evolving technologies can reduce the number of accidents on our roads, and also have the potential to increase mobility for the elderly and Americans with disabilities who may be constrained from driving […]

[…] recognizes leading privacy scholarship that is relevant to policymakers in the United States Congress, at U.S. federal agencies, and for data protection authorities abroad. From a record number of nominated privacy-related papers published in the last year, five were selected by Finalist Judges, after having been first evaluated highly by a diverse team of […]

[…] by Daniel Solove, Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School; and Danielle Citron, Professor of Law, University of Maryland Carey School of Law From a record number of nominated privacy-related papers published in the last year, these five were selected by Finalist Judges, after having been first evaluated highly by a diverse team […]