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[…] new technologies and data sources can improve health outcomes, while protecting individual privacy. The goal of the event is to propose specific law, policy and practice changes to promote the more effective use of data for health. The symposium is sponsored by the Triangle Privacy Research Hub (TPRH), Intel Corporation, Future of Privacy Forum (FPF), the North Carolina […]

[…] the Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT), KU Leuven Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Professor of Computer Science, Chairholder of the UNESCO Chair in Data Privacy, and ICREA-Acadèmia Researcher, Universitat Rovira i Virgili Jaap-Henk Hoepman, Professor in the Digital Security group at the Institute for Computing and Information Sciences and Scientific Director of the Privacy & Identity Lab, Radboud University […]

[…] they are empowered to shape responsible decisions, we’ll help make sure that we have a world that is not Orwellian but that uses technology so that we have better health, more free time, more time to do important things like spend it with our family and be healthy and achieve great things.” LISTEN Read Transcript

[…] Learning.” The Economic Times also reported “Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates try opposite paths to education tech in India.” “Schools are watching students’ social media, raising questions about free speech” and privacy, via a feature on PBS NewsHour on June 20. This relates to privacy and surveillance questions I discussed in my report on that […]

[…] pictures, or other content that the company needs to hold and use to provide services – the company will often declare that it has a perpetual, royalty- free, worldwide license to use your information.  Corporate intellectual property lawyers insist on this language to give themselves the rights to use the data on an ongoing basis, […]

[…] week. After reports of a data breach last week, the company was criticized for ad tracking. Some in the media noted that this “revives skepticism surrounding ‘ free’ edtech tools.” This follows data of students held by Schoolzilla being exposed by a security researcher in late April (see their statement here). The Parent Coalition […]

[…] Authors of selected submissions will be invited to present their work in a workshop, which will be hosted by the VUB on 6 November 2017, in Brussels, Belgium. This year’s event follows up on the 2016 Brussels Privacy Symposium regarding Identifiability: Policy and Practical Solutions for Anonymization and Pseudonymization. For 2017, this event will focus […]

[…] privacy programs, transparency and consent, de-identification, vendor management, and data minimization. Finally, the tool also acts as a central repository for privacy-related guidance documents, best practices, reports, codes of conduct, and other resources that can help local policymakers, technologists, and citizens navigate these complex issues and integrate digital services in privacy-protective ways. As cities […]

Brussels, Belgium – Today, the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) released Shedding Light on Smart City Privacy, a new tool designed to help citizens, companies, and communities understand the technologies at the heart of smart city and smart community projects as well as their potential impact on privacy. The guide was released by FPF […]

[…] regimes, including the principles and commitments outlined in the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI). Following this debate, concerns arose in the 2000’s about “adware,” or advertising “spyware,” the free programs that many consumers downloaded, unaware that the cost of the free download was ad tracking and often pop-ups. Standards and remedies arose to address this […]