Policymakers, regulators, and privacy executives interact with latest connected tech at FPF's Second Annual Tech Lab
FPF held the Second Annual Tech Lab Open House Tuesday, April 18, 2017, at our offices in Washington, D.C. The Tech Lab Open House provided an opportunity for us to host FPF members and colleagues based in the District of Columbia, and those from around the world who were in town for the International Association of Privacy Professional’s Global Privacy Summit.
Smart Cities Resources
Sensor networks and always-on data flows are supporting new service models and generating analytics that make modern cities and local communities faster and safer, as well as more sustainable, more livable, and more equitable. At the same time, connected smart city devices raise concerns about individuals’ privacy, autonomy, freedom of choice, and potential discrimination by […]
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A ugust 2016 FPF Mobile Apps Study 2 | P a g e I. INTRODUCTION With 68% of Americans owning smartphones 1 and more than 2 million apps available in each of the major app store platforms today 2, notice and transparency about how a pps collect, use, protect, and share users’ personal data is […]
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A ugust 2016 FPF Mobile Apps Study 2 | P a g e I. INTRODUCTION With 68% of Americans owning smartphones 1 and more than 2 million apps available in each of the major app store platforms today 2, notice and transparency about how a pps collect, use, protect, and share users’ personal data is […]
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Privacy above all other Fundamental Rights? Challenges with the Implementation of a Right to be Forgotten in Canada* Eloïse Gratton** and Jules Polonetsky* ** Executive Summary This paper explores whether importing a “right to be forgotten” (RTBF) that would allow individuals to stop data search engines or other third parties, from providing links to information […]
Tackling Privacy, One Carnegie Mellon Project at a Time
Last Thursday, the Future of Privacy Forum hosted a conversation among five of CMU’s leading privacy researchers. While the panelists discussed a number of their leading privacy projects, I wanted to highlight some of the interesting takeaways I took from the presentation. Many of the researchers focused on how subtle nudges can be used to change people’s behaviors. […]
Top Carnegie Mellon privacy researchers preview new work
On July 9th,2015, FPF will be hosting an in-person discussion with privacy researchers from Carnegie Mellon University to discuss some of their current privacy projects. Topics to be presented and discussed include: The Usable Privacy Policy Project: is developing approaches to extracting useful information from natural-language privacy policies and displaying that information in useful […]
Big Data and Privacy Paper Collection
Solutions to many pressing economic and societal challenges lie in better understanding data. New tools for analyzing disparate information sets, called Big Data, have revolutionized our ability to find signals amongst the noise. Big Data techniques hold promise for b reakthroughs ranging from better health care, a cleaner environment, safer cities, and more effective marketing. […]
Leonard – Big Data Analytics
page | 1 B IG D ATA ANALYTICS : EVOLVING BUSINESS MOD ELS AND GLOBAL PRIVACY REGULATION Peter Leonard, Partner, Gilbert + Tobin Lawyers, Australia and Director, iappANZ [email protected] 13 August 2013 At the heart of the current global debate as to how privacy regulation should address big data lie three questions: Can national […]
SOCIAL – Selinger & Hartzog – Big Data in Small Hands
Big Data in Small Hands W o o d r o w H a r t z o g * a n d E v a n S e l i n g e r ** “Big data” can be defined as a problem -solving philosophy that leverages massive data sets and algorithmic analysis to […]