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Diverging fining policies of European DPAs: is there room for coherent enforcement of the GDPR?
The European Union’s (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) puts forward a non-exhaustive list of criteria in Article 83 that Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) need to consider when deciding whether to impose administrative fines and in determining their amount in specific cases. Notoriously, the ceiling for administrative fines put forward by the GDPR is high […]
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What the Biden Executive Order on Digital Assets Means for Privacy
Author: Dale Rappaneau Dale Rappaneau is a policy intern at the Future of Privacy Forum and a 3L at the University of Maine School of Law. On March 9, the Biden Administration issued an Executive Order on “Ensuring Responsible Developments of Digital Assets” (“the Order”), published together with an explanatory Fact Sheet. The Order states […]
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FPF at the 2022 IAPP Global Privacy Summit
Last week, IAPP held its first in-person annual Global Privacy Summit in Washington, DC since 2019! Through expert panels and our expo booth, FPF remained active during this two-day conference, with our CEO Jules Polonetsky holding a conversation with FTC Commissioner Noah Phillips, our data privacy experts speaking and providing their expert analysis at the […]
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Privacy Harms, Global Privacy Regulation, and Algorithmic Decision Making are Major Topics During Privacy Papers for Policymakers Event
For the 12th year, the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) hosted its Privacy Papers for Policymakers event, honoring the 2021 Privacy Papers for Policymakers Award winners. This year’s event featured an opening keynote by Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser and facilitated discussions between the winning authors – Daniel Solove, Ben Green, Woody Hartzog, Neil Richards, […]
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BCI Commercial and Government Use: Gaming, Education, Employment, and More
This post is the third in a four-part series on Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs), providing an overview of the technology, use cases, privacy risks, and proposed recommendations for promoting privacy and mitigating risks associated with BCIs. Click here for FPF and IBM’s full report: Privacy and the Connected Mind. In case you missed them, read the […]
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Understanding why the first pieces fell in the transatlantic transfers domino
Two decisions issued by Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) in Europe and published in the second week of January 2022 found that two websites, one run by a contractor of the European Parliament (EP), and the other one by an Austrian company, have unlawfully transferred personal data to the US merely by placing cookies (Google Analytics and Stripe) provided by two US-based companies on the devices of their visitors.
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5 Tips for Protecting Your Privacy Online
Today, almost everything we do online involves companies collecting personal information about us. Personal data is collected and regularly used for a number of reasons – like when you use social media accounts, when you shop online or redeem digital coupons at the store, or when you search the internet. Sometimes, information is collected about […]
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Data Privacy Day 2022
Data Privacy Day is held annually on January 28, a day to internationally promote best practices surrounding consumer privacy and data protection. Join FPF in recognizing this significant day by sharing the importance of data privacy. Data Privacy Day Snapchat Lens FPF partnered with the photo-sharing app Snapchat to create a privacy-themed lens exclusively for […]
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Overcoming Hurdles to Effective Data Sharing for Researchers
In 2021, challenges faced by academics in accessing corporate data sets for research and the issues that companies were experiencing to make privacy-respecting research data available broke into the news. With its long history of research data sharing, FPF saw an opportunity to bring together leaders from the corporate, research, and policy communities for a conversation […]
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Event Report from DigitalxADB: Driving Digital Development across Asia and the Pacific
On October 27, the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF)’s Asia-Pacific office and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) co-hosted an online event titled, “Trade Offs or Synergies? Data Privacy and Protection as an Engine of Data Driven Innovation” in the context of DigitalxADB. This edition was the third in ADB’s series of annual knowledge-sharing events for representatives of ADB’s […]