Five Big Questions (and Zero Predictions) for the U.S. State Privacy Landscape in 2024
Entering 2024, the United States now stands alone as the sole G20 nation without a comprehensive, national framework governing the collection and use of personal data. With bipartisan efforts to enact federal privacy legislation once again languishing in Congress, state-level activity on privacy dramatically accelerated in 2023. As the dust from this year settles, we […]
Unveiling China’s Generative AI Regulation
Authors: Yirong Sun and Jingxian Zeng The following is a guest post to the FPF blog by Yirong Sun, research fellow at the New York University School of Law Guarini Institute for Global Legal Studies at NYU School of Law: Global Law & Tech and Jingxian Zeng, research fellow at the University of Hong Kong […]
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Workplace Discrimination and Equal Opportunity
Why monitoring cultural diversity in your European workforce is not at odds with GDPR Author: Prof. Lokke Moerel* The following is a guest post to the FPF blog from Lokke Moerel, Professor of Global ICT Law at Tilburg University and a lawyer with Morrison & Foerster (Brussels). The guest blog reflects the opinion of the […]
Event Report: FPF Side Event and Workshop on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) at the 2022 Global Privacy Assembly (GPA)
The 2022 Global Privacy Assembly (GPA) – which brings together most global data protection authorities (DPAs) every year since 1979, to share knowledge and establish common priorities among regulators – took place between October 25 and 28, in Istanbul (Türkiye). The Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) was invited by the organizers of the GPA (the […]
GDPR and the AI Act interplay: Lessons from FPF’s ADM Case-Law Report
In May 2022, the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) launched a comprehensive Report analyzing case-law under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) applied to real-life cases involving Automated Decision-Making (ADM). Our research highlighted that the GDPR’s protections for individuals against forms of ADM and profiling go significantly beyond Article 22 – which provides for the […]
Indonesia’s Personal Data Protection Bill: Overview, Key Takeaways, and Context
The authors thank Zacky Zainal Husein and Muhammad Iqsan Sirie from Rajah & Tann Indonesia for their insights. Overview On September 20, 2022, Indonesia’s House of Representatives passed the Personal Data Protection Bill (PDP Bill) (note: linked Bill is in Indonesian). This is the first step towards enactment of the PDP Bill as law. The […]
New Report on Limits of “Consent” in Singapore’s Data Protection Law
Introduction Today, the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) and Asian Business Law Institute (ABLI), as part of their ongoing joint research project: “From Consent-Centric Data Protection Frameworks to Responsible Data Practices and Privacy Accountability in Asia Pacific,” are publishing the thirteenth in a series of detailed jurisdiction reports on the status of “consent” and alternatives […]
Looking Back to Forge Ahead: Challenges of Developing an “African Conception” of Privacy
In this post for the FPF Blog, Mercy King’ori explores the cultural and societal underpinnings of “privacy” in Africa, looking throughout history, from pre-colonial times, and beyond the modern external influences on the legislative processes resulting in general data protection laws across the continent. The first essential point to start off from is understanding that […]
When is a Biometric No Longer a Biometric?
In October 2021, the White House Office of Science and Technology (OSTP) published a Request for Information (RFI) regarding uses, harms, and recommendations for biometric technologies. Over 130 entities responded to the RFI, including advocacy organizations, scientists, experts in healthcare, lawyers, and technology companies. While most commenters agreed on core concepts of biometric technologies used […]