Five Big Questions (and Zero Predictions) for the U.S. Privacy and AI Landscape in 2026
Introduction For better or worse, the U.S. is heading into 2026 under a familiar backdrop: no comprehensive federal privacy law, plenty of federal rumblings, and state legislators showing no signs of slowing down. What has changed is just how intertwined privacy, youth, and AI policy debates have become, whether the issue is sensitive data, data-driven […]
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Data Protection by Process How to Operationalize Data Protection by Design for Machine Learning VERSION 1.0 DECEMBER 2019 Sophie Stalla-Bourdillon Senior Privacy Counsel & Legal Engineer, Immuta Alfred Rossi Research Scientist, Immuta Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna Senior Counsel, Future of Privacy Forum REPORT BY: Content Introduction 3 What is Data Protection by Design? 4 The DPbD Workflow […]
If privacy principles are from Venus, then engineering rules are from Mars
FPF Advisory Board member, Alisa Bergman, Vice President, Chief Privacy Officer at
Adobe Systems, recently wrote an article in the IAPP Tech Privacy Advisor that we think is very useful. The article started from a presentation Bergman did for Adobe engineers.
If privacy principles are from Venus, then engineering rules are from Mars
FPF Advisory Board member, Alisa Bergman, Vice President, Chief Privacy Officer at
Adobe Systems, recently wrote an article in the IAPP Tech Privacy Advisor that we think is very useful. The article started from a presentation Bergman did for Adobe engineers.
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Evolving the IRB: Building Robust Review for Industry Research Molly Jackman and Lauri Kanerva * Abstract Increasingly, companies are conducting research so that they can make informed decisions about what products to build and what features to change. These data-driven insights enable companies to make responsible decisions that will improve peoples ’ experiences with their products. Importantly, […]
FPF Comments Regarding Internet of Things
BEFORE THE UNITED STATES FEDERA L TRADE COMMIS SION WASHINGTON, DC ____________________ ____________________ _____________ COMMENTS OF THE FUTU RE OF PRIVACY FORUM ON CONNECTED SMART TECHNOLOGIES IN ADVANCE OF THE FTC “INTERNET OF THI NGS ” WORKSHOP ____________________ ____________________ _____________ I. Introduction On April 17 , 2013, the FTC announced a Workshop to be held […]
A Posterboy for Advertising’s Pro-Consumer Quid Pro Quo | The Technology Liberation Front
I enjoy reading the Tech Liberation Front blog, even though I am far less sure that the “privacy” free market is working as well as the TLF bloggers contend. But the writers are often witty, sharp and entertaining and are deeply immersed in privacy issues. It has been nice getting to know Berin Szoka, TLF […]