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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 […]
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Protected: 13th Annual Advisory Board Meeting 2022
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Immersive Technology: Use and Privacy
The use of augmented reality, virtual reality, and emerging immersive technology are growing rapidly in an increasing number of areas outside of the gaming industry. This technology has opened new approaches to training, journalism, tourism, and healthcare including mental health reaping tremendous benefits. Along with these benefits, though, comes the realization that much can be […]
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Privacy Book Club: The Twenty-Six Words that Created the Internet
As requested by a number of readers, we discussed The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet by Jeff Kosseff. The author joined our discussion.
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Privacy & Pandemics: Corporate Data Sharing Workshop
Privacy and civil liberties are increasingly a point of inflection as efforts to collect and use population data to contain, mitigate and fight the spread of the COVID-19 virus are launched. FPF’s invite-only informal Privacy Pandemic: Corporate Data Sharing Workshop will address issues arising out of the quest to preserve our civil liberties and democratic […]
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W@Privacy Awards
Women@ Privacy Awards FPF is honored to host W@Privacy for its first edition of the W@Privacy Awards! As part of W@Privacy’s mission to enhance the visibility and empowerment of women privacy professionals, they’ll recognize and celebrate outstanding women in the privacy field from various categories. The awards categories are: The winners will be announced during an awards […]
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Are we there yet? The long road to nowhere: The demise of India’s draft data protection bill
In August 2022, the Government of India withdrew the country’s draft Personal Data Protection Bill from the Parliament’s consideration. This was a surprise move, coming after more than four years of consultations, as well as several statements from top officials that its passage was imminent and that there were no plans to scrap the Bill […]
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Judge declares Buenos Aires’ Fugitive Facial Recognition System Unconstitutional
On September 7, a trial judge declared the implementation of the Fugitive Facial Recognition System (SRFP, for its name in Spanish) by the Government of the City of Buenos Aires unconstitutional. The decision set an important precedent for risks associated with privacy and intimacy in public spaces in the context of public surveillance for law […]
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What Happened to the Risk-Based Approach to Data Transfers?
The following is a guest post to the FPF blog from Lokke Moerel, Professor of Global ICT Law at Tilburg University and a Dutch Cyber Security Council member. This blog is a summary of a longer academic paper which can be downloaded here. The guest blog reflects the opinion of the author only. Guest blog posts […]
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New Report on Limits of “Consent” in Japan’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 fourteenth and final report in a series of detailed jurisdiction reports on the status of […]