Chris Wolf Participates in ITU Telecom World in Geneva
FPF’s Chris Wolf is currently participating in the International Telecommunications Union’s Telecom World in Geneva. The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) is part of the United Nations and handles issues in information and communications technology. Chris is on a panel discussing cybersecurity challenges and was also invited to submit his paper The Role of Government in Commercial […]
FPF Advisory Board Members Take the Stage at Computers, Freedom, and Privacy Conference to discuss: “Frontiers in Privacy"
Wednesday, June 15 at Computers Freedom and Privacy (CFP), three Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) Advisory Board members took the stage during a discussion about “Frontiers in Privacy.” Advisory Board member Professor Annie Anton moderated a discussion between Professors Peter Swire and Daniel Solove. The discussion was fast-paced and covered six topics–each getting a lightning-round […]
Guest Post: A Busy Time For Privacy and Security
The following is a guest post by David Hoffman, Director of Security Policy and Global Privacy Officer at Intel and FPF advisory board member. Check out A Busy Time For Privacy and Security and other posts by David on the Intel Policy Blog. A Busy Time For Privacy and Security The past two weeks have included […]
Guest Post: The International Association of Privacy Professionals’ First Europe Data Protection Congress
Please find guest post below by Monique Altheim, Esq., CIPP, an EDiscovery and Privacy attorney. Also, be sure to check out her other writings on eDiscoveryMap.com! The International Association of Privacy Professionals’ First Europe Data Protection Congress By: Monique Altheim I recently attended the International Association of Privacy Professionals’ (IAPP) very first Europe Data Protection […]
Cookie Opt-in, Opt-out? How about stepping up?
EU companies are heaving sighs of relief after obtaining some text changes in the EU telecoms package passed this week in Brussels. Concerns that the proposed amendments to the ePrivacy Directive would have required cookies used for secondary purposes to be “opt-in” had trade groups scrambling, but elimination of the words “prior” and “after having […]
Major utitility launches Microsoft home energy manager – opt-in.
“It’s interesting that customers have to opt-in to Hohm, via Microsoft’s web site, rather than being automatically enrolled. It shows that the utility is probably looking to give its customers a choice.” So says expert commentator Katie Fehrenbacher at earth2tech. We love Katie’s reporting and have learned a great deal about the grid industry from […]
IAPP Privacy Academy
Chris will be moderating a panel at the IAPP Privacy Academy, “Into the Breach: Dealing with the Aftermath of a Data Breach” in Boston, MA. September 18, 2009 11:00am – 12:00pm
Time Will Tell…
What a difference six months makes! Six months ago, the staff of the Federal Trade Commission released a set of proposed principles to guide the development of self-regulation in online behavioral advertising, which it described as an “evolving area”. Industry groups reacted by agreeing to a set of principles focused around ensuring that all behaviorally […]
Does Microsoft + Yahoo = A Privacy Arms Race Among Web Giants?
Does Microsoft + Yahoo = A Privacy Arms Race Among Web Giants? New York Times By Riva Richmond July 31, 2009 When Internet giants team up, civil-liberties advocates tend to worry that their consolidated power will end up hurting the privacy of average users. An agreement between Microsoft and Yahoo to work together on Web […]
Search Privacy and the Microsoft-Yahoo! Agreement
As we have followed the rumors of a Microsoft-Yahoo deal over the last few months, the area we were most concerned about was the future of Yahoo’s leading search data retention policy. We have repeatedly praised Yahoo for implementing a data retention policy that seeks to anonymize search queries after 3 months and we have […]