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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 […]

October 15, 2014 via email : [email protected] Ms. Diane Honeycutt Secretary Computer Security Division National Institute of Standards and Technology 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 8930 Gaithersburg, MD 20899 Re: Public Comments, NIST Privacy Engineering Workshop Dear Ms. Honeycutt: The Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) is a think tank seeking to advance responsible data practices and […]

Benefit-Risk Analysis for Big Data Projects Jules Polonetsky Omer Tene Joseph Jerome Benefit-Risk Analysis for Big Data Projects Jules Polonetsky Omer Tene Joseph Jerome September 201b About the Future of Privacy Forum Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) is a Washington, DC based think tank that seeks to advance responsible data practices. The forum is led […]

Future of Privacy Forum  919 18 th Street, NW, Suite 9 01  Washington, DC 20006 www.futureofprivacy.org August 5, 2014 Via e -mail: [email protected] National Telecommunications and Information Administration U.S. Department of Commerce 1401 Constitution Avenue N.W., Room 4725 Washington, DC 20230 Re: Privacy RFC 2014 The Future of Priv acy Forum (FPF) is […]

i PREFACE FROM THE CO -CHAIRS OF THE FUTURE OF PRIVACY FORUM As the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) celebrates its fifth anniversary, we welcome the opportunity to participate in the discussions over trans -Atlantic privacy and, in particular, the effec tiveness and utility of the EU -US Safe Harbor. For five years, FPF has […]

  THE  PURSUIT OF  PRIVACY    IN A  W ORLD  W HERE  INFORMATION    C ONTROL  IS FAILING     ADAM  THIERER *  INTRODUCTION ……………………………………………………..410 I. NORMATIVE  CONSIDERATIONS :  T HE  CHALLENGE OF  DEFINING  PRIVACY …………414 A. Privacy and “the Pursuit of   Happiness” ……………………………………………..414 B. On the Problem of “Creepiness”   as the Standard of Privacy Harm …………….417 C. Increasing Tensions Between   Privacy Rights and Online Free Speech …..421 II. ENFORCEMENT  COMPLICATIONS :   C ONTROLLING  INFORMATION  FLOWS ……………..424 A. Media and Technological Convergence […]

2013 ] 1055 A FRAMEWORK FOR BENE FIT -COST ANALYSIS IN DIGITAL PRIVACY D EBATES Adam Thierer * INTRODUCTION Policy debates surrounding online child safety and digital privacy share much in common . Both are complicated by thorny definitional di s- putes and highly subjective valuations of “harm.” Both issues can be su b- ject […]

Why the Right to Data Portability Likely Reduces Consumer Welfare: Antitrust and Privacy Critique Peter Swire & Yianni Lagos Public Law and Legal Theory Working Paper Series No. 204 May 31, 2013 This working paper series is co-sponsored by the Center for Interdisciplinary Law and Policy Studies at the Moritz College of Law This paper […]

(1623) ARTICLE INFORMATION PRIVACY IN THE CLOUD PAUL M. SCHWARTZ † INTRODUCTION …………………………………………………………………. 1624 I. T HE USE OF THE CLOUD ……………………………………………….. 1626 A. International Processing of Personal Data……………………………….. 1628 B. Networked Data Processes …………………………………………………. 1630 C. Modular Units and Outsourced Services ………………………………… 1632 II. T HE M ISMATCH WITH INFORMATION PRIVACY LAW ………….. 1634 […]

  1966 THE EU-U.S. PRIVACY COLLISION: A TURN TO INSTITUTIONS AND PROCEDURES Pa u l M . S c h w a r t z ∗ I.  INTRODUCTION   Internet scholarship in the United States generally concentrates on  how decisions made in this country about copyright law, network neu- trality, and other policy areas shape cyberspace. 1  In one important as- pect of the evolving Internet, however, a comparative focus is indis- pensable.  Legal forces outside the United States have significantly  shaped the governance of information privacy, a highly important as- pect of cyberspace, and one involving central issues of civil liberties.   The EU has played a major role in international decisions involving  information privacy, a role that has been bolstered by the authority of  EU member states to block data transfers to third party nations, in- cluding the United States. 2  The European Commission’s release in late January 2012 of its  proposed “General Data Protection Regulation” (the Proposed Regula- tion) provides a perfect juncture to assess the ongoing EU-U.S. privacy  collision. 3  An intense debate is now occurring about critical areas of  information policy, including the rules for lawfulness of personal pro- cessing, the “right to be forgotten,” and the conditions for data flows  between the EU and the United States.  This Article begins by tracing the rise of the current EU-U.S. pri- vacy status quo.  The European Commission’s 1995 Data Protection  Directive (the Directive) staked out a number of bold positions, includ- ing a limit on international data transfers to countries that lacked “ad- equate” legal protections for personal information. 4  The impact of the  […]