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[…] law from the Universities of Namur Leuven and Hong Kong. He has worked as an International Fellow at the Center for Democracy & Technology and the Electronic Frontier Foundation and has been on research stays at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society (Harvard University) in 2012, the Institute for Information Law (University of […]

[…] Kingdom passed the Investigatory Powers Act, which allows the government to compel communications providers to remove “electronic protection applied … to any communications or data.”  The Electronic Frontier Foundation reports that they don’t believe the U.K. government has taken advantage of this requirement to break encryption yet, but the law is now on the […]

[…] workforce in both the public and private sectors.” It may be useful to re-read Ben Herold’s EdWeek article on the state of K-12 cybersecurity education. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has released a report, “Spying on Students: School-Issued Devices and Student Privacy,” which was picked up by multiple news outlets. Jim Siegl released a very […]

On Monday, the Future of Privacy Forum joined with the Center for Democracy & Technology, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, The Constitution Project, and Tech Freedom to write the NYC Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) about its proposed rules that add new trip reporting requirements for for-hire vehicle (FHV) bases.

[…] expanded. The Pledge has since been signed by more than 300 ed tech companies as a way to help demonstrate their commitment to student privacy. The Electronic Frontier Foundation yesterday published a confusing analysis of the Pledge. EFF generally praises the Pledge commitments, but claims that the Pledge includes some fine print definitions that […]

In response to the allegations made today that Google has violated commitments of the Student Privacy Pledge (SPP), FPF Executive Director Jules Polonetsky issued the following statement: “We have reviewed the EFF complaint but do not believe it has merit.  Chrome Sync is a setting within the control of the school IT administrator, and can […]

On Monday, the Future of Privacy Forum joined with the Bill of Rights Defense Committee/Defending Dissent Foundation, Center for Democracy & Technology, The Constitution Project, and Electronic Frontier Foundation to write the NYC Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) about its proposed rules regarding For-Hire Vehicle dispatch apps. We were especially concerned with the requirement […]

[…] some mechanism to justify what is going on to either regulators or self-regulatory bodies. Spadea argued that “the answer isn’t more transparency, but better transparency.” The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Jeremy Gillula recognized the challenge companies face revealing their “secret sauce,” but encouraged them to look at more way to give consumer more general information […]