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FPF Announces New Group to Develop Best Practices for Retail Location Analytics Companies

One of the most important provisions of the updated Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) rule that took effect yesterday is the extension of child privacy protection to behavioral advertising, the practice of tracking users across online sites and services to tailor advertising. The Future of Privacy Forum supported the Federal Trade Commission’s move to […]

Publically releasing sensitive information is risky.  In 1997, Latanya Sweeney used full date of birth, 5 digit ZIP code, and gender to show that seemingly anonymous medical data could be linked to an actual person when she uncovered the health information of William Weld, the former governor of Massachusetts.   Sweeney in a new study analyzes […]

Guest blog post from Mary J. Culnan, Senior Fellow at the Future of Privacy Forum In February 2012, the White House issued a Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights.  In the report, the White House proposed legislation based on the privacy principles in the report and called on NTIA to convene stakeholders to develop enforceable codes of […]

A new report shows that a largely unpublicized section of the EU draft Data Protection Regulation could have far reaching implications for both businesses and consumers.  The draft Regulation gives consumers an unprecedented new economic and human right—the right to data portability (“RDP”).   The basic idea of the RDP is that individuals would be able […]

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) held a Smart Grid Privacy Workshop on January 31, 2012.  This was followed by the White House privacy blueprint, “Consumer Data Privacy in a Networked World,” released on February 23, 2012.  As a reaction to both events, the Federal Smart Grid Task Force will “facilitate a multistakeholder process to develop […]

The Future of Privacy Forum & World Privacy Forum’s briefing on the Mobile App Ecosystem will be held on September 13th at 4PM EST. This briefing is intended to further the NTIA-convened multistakeholder efforts to create a code of conduct for mobile application transparency. Details for the event can be found here.  

The schedule for the next seven NTIA Multistakeholder Meetings to develop a consumer data privacy code of conduct concerning mobile application transparency was recently posted to the Federal Register (pdf). The meetings will be held in the Auditorium of the U.S. Department of Commerce, Herbert C. Hoover Building, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC. Any updates to […]

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced that the first focus of its multistakeholder process will be on transparency in mobile applications. The first meeting is set for July 12, 2012, to be considered for participation, fill out an “expression of intent” form with NTIA. The announcement came at the US Chamber of Commerce […]

The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) released a Draft Anonymisation Code of Practice yesterday. The draft is open for consultation until August 23 2012. The document, which considers both legal and technical aspects of anonymisation, “is intended to demonstrate that the effective anonymisation of personal data is possible, desirable and can help society to ensure […]