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Yesterday, the White House released its long-awaited Privacy “White Paper” that outlines the Obama Administration’s proposal for a new American privacy framework.  The more than year-long process that culminated in today’s release of the White Paper began in December 2010 when the Department of Commerce’s Internet Policy Task Force released a “Green Paper” entitled:  “Commercial […]

PrivacyChoice CEO and FPF Advisory Board member Jim Brock announced a new privacy resource center for app developers at today’s Online Trust Alliance 2011 Forum. Features include PrivacyChoice’s Policymaker tool, sample templates, code resources, and other guidance. Read more about the center here.

We loved this article by Robert Ellis Smith, noted privacy expert and publisher, Privacy Journal, and republish it here with his permission.  Privacy Journal offers our readers a beginning rate of $65 for the next year, a 50 percent discount.  The newsletter is available in hard copy by U.S. mail or pdf by email.  Please place […]

Future of Privacy Summary of California Public Utilities Commission Proposed Decision on Smart Grid Privacy and Security May 9, 2011   On May 6th, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) issued a proposed decision  by CPUC President Peevey addressing smart grid privacy and security.   The CPUC proposed decision presents the most significant step yet in […]

For those of you who are unable to join us in person for the announcement of the leading “Privacy Papers for Policy Makers,” we have extended the following two options: To view the “Privacy Papers for Policy Makers” event live, click here: http://www.law.gwu.edu/News/Videos/Pages/Privacy.aspx  This event will be available for viewing on September 15 from 8 […]

A  friend just flagged to us the following activity on the Mozilla message boards indicating the latest updates to the browser code that is the base for the Firefox browser will dramatically change the handling of third party cookies.  Comments by Dan Wittes, leader of the cookie module at Mozilla,  explain that the current default ‘accept third […]

As mentioned in a previous blog post, we had the pleasure of speaking with nugg.ad CEO Stephan Noller last week. Nugg.ad is the German company that has just been awarded the EuroPrise Privacy Seal. nugg.ad’s new behavioral targeting system, Predictive Targeting Networking (PTN) 2.0, received the seal favored by many EU regulators after a vetting […]

The CEO of BlueKai, an online behavioral targeting and marketing company, makes some interesting points about giving consumers more control over their online profiles. The company’s profile viewer, which displays the categories they have put you in and which lets you edit your preferences, is no silver bullet, but it is one piece of the […]

With thanks to Daniel Hales and Keir Lamont for their contributions. Shortly before the close of its 2025 session, the Arkansas legislature passed HB 1717, the Arkansas Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act, with unanimous votes. As the name suggests, Arkansas modeled this legislation after Senator Markey’s federal “COPPA 2.0” proposal, which passed the […]

Thank you for the contributions of Rob van Eijk, Marlene Smith, and Katy Wills We are now in 2025, the year of AI agents. In the last few weeks, leading large language model (LLM) developers (including OpenAI, Google, Anthropic) have released early versions of technologies described as “AI agents.” Unlike earlier automated systems and even […]