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On January 27, 2021, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) hosted a panel at the 14th Annual International Computers, Privacy, and Data Protection Conference (CPDP2021). The theme for this year’s online conference was “Enforcing Rights in a Changing World.” Rob van Eijk, FPF Managing Director for Europe, moderated the panel “Technical Standards Bringing […]

[…] planned to use technology to address the spread of COVID-19, Limor Shmerling Magazanik, Managing Director of the Israel Tech Policy Institute, published recommendations to ensure a balance between civilian freedoms and public health. Specifically, her recommendations centered around ensuring transparency, limits on the length of time that data is held, requiring a clear purpose for data […]

Authors: Hunter Dorwart (FPF), Mariana Rielli (DPB) and Rafael Zanatta (DPB) On Tuesday, November 24, 2020, the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) and Data Privacy Brasil (DPB) co-hosted a landscape webinar exploring the relationship between Brazil’s legal system and the implementation of Brazil’s new data protection law, Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados (LGPD). As a federation, Brazil hosts many separate […]

UPDATED August 3, 2021 and June 2023. FPF released the white paper, The Spectrum of AI: Companion to the FPF AI Infographic, to provide additional detail and analysis for use of this Infographic tool as an educational resources for policymakers or regulators. FPF has just completed its newest infographic educational tool, The Spectrum of Artificial Intelligence. […]

[…] Commissioner will consider broad factors to determine whether to prohibit transfers. These include:  the likelihood the transfer would harm any individual; the general desirability of facilitating the free flow of information; and any existing or developing international guidelines relevant to cross-border data flows such as the OECD Guidelines and the GDPR. Entities transferring data […]

[…] and scientific research, the EDPS recommends intensifying the dialogue between DPAs and ethical review boards for a common understanding of which activities qualify as scientific research, on codes of conduct for scientific research, and on closer alignment between EU research framework programs and data protection standards. In his keynote comments, the EDPS discusses the […]

Authors: Stacey Gray, Senior Counsel, Katelyn Ringrose, Christopher Wolf Diversity Law Fellow at FPF, Polly Sanderson, Policy Counsel, and Veronica Alix, FPF Legal Intern Despite a day of election uncertainty, November 3, 2020 produced an important moment for privacy legislation: California voters approved Proposition 24 (the California Privacy Rights Act) (CPRA) (full text here). Garnering 56.1% of the vote so far, […]

[…] Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) extended deadlines for entities working in health information technology to comply with a new federal rule intended to “ promote health care choice and competition across the United States” and “advance interoperability and support the access, exchange, and use of electronic health information.” Organizations now have until […]

[…] privacy when developing network protocols. Figure 1 – Overview of P802E applications (slide from the presentation by Jerome Henry) The purpose of the P802E recommendation is ‘to promote a consistent approach by IEEE 802 protocol developers to mitigate privacy threats identified in the specified privacy threat model and provide a privacy guideline.’  In order […]

[…] we address uses of machine-generated data that are not necessarily personal data in the legal sence. Therefore, it’s important that we track policy developments related to the free flow of non-personal data, which also happens to be an issue that is top of mind for the European Commission at the moment.   To learn […]