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[…] the PPC delivered the opening keynote. In his keynote, Commissioner Oshima shared about the PPC’s regulatory priorities for 2025. These included cross-border data transfers and the Data Free Flow with Trust initiative, as well as further collaboration with the G7 DPAs and bilaterally with various international regulators.  Following the keynote, Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna, Vice-President for […]

[…] minimization provisions are also elements of recent sectoral laws including the Washington State My Health My Data Act, the New York Child Data Protection Act, and the Virginia Child Data Privacy Amendment. Taken together, these frameworks portend a new trend toward substantive data minimization standards; however, their statutory requirements vary in subtle but consequential […]

[…] emphasized by the IACHR: 599. In any case, the Inter-American Court reiterates that the effectiveness of the right to informational self-determination requires States to provide adequate, swift, free, and effective mechanisms or procedures to process and address requests, either by the same authority managing the data or by another competent institution in matters of […]

This year’s Brussels Privacy Symposium, held on 8 October 2024, convened global stakeholders from across Europe and beyond for in-depth discussions on the EU AI Act in the context of the broader EU digital ecosystem. Co-organized jointly by the Future of Privacy Forum and the Brussels Privacy Hub of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, the […]

Co-Authored with Marlene Smith, Research Assistant for AI On November 27, 2024, the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) hosted a Technologist Roundtable with the goal of convening an open dialogue on complex technical questions that impact law and policy, and assisting global data protection and privacy policymakers in understanding the relevant technical basics of […]

November 26, 2024 — This week, the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF), a global non-profit focused on data protection, privacy,  and emerging technologies, hosted the second annual Japan Privacy Symposium with support from S&K Brussels LPC and in cooperation with the Personal Information Protection Commission of Japan (PPC) and the Japan DPO Association.  This […]

[…] context of AI and emerging technologies, and steward their adoption and scalability.  Through these initiatives and other efforts, FPF has identified a growing demand among stakeholders to promote and enhance a better understanding and awareness of the potential and limitations of PETs. Many regulators and organizations have made significant contributions to advancing PETs development […]

[…] upon the existing frameworks and add novel obligations, rights, and exceptions to respond to changing societal, technological, and economic trends. Read the report here Between 2018 and 2024, nineteen U.S. states enacted comprehensive consumer privacy laws. This rapid adoption of privacy legislation has caused the legal landscape to explode in depth and complexity as […]

[…] the continent. The Malabo Convention was designed to provide a holistic, continent-wide framework to harmonize African data protection policies and promote digital rights, including privacy and internet freedom. Although adopted in 2014, the Malabo Convention did not come into force until receiving its 15th national ratification in 2023. With only 15 ratifying nations of […]

[…] Amendment, laws prohibiting the creation of deepfakes in certain circumstances—such as in the case of election-related content and digital replicas of deceased people—are a violation of constitutionally-protected free expression. For example, in early October a federal judge enjoined a recently-enacted California law that would prohibit knowingly and maliciously distributing communications with “materially deceptive” content […]