Record Set: Assessing Points of Emphasis from Public Input on the FTC’s Privacy Rulemaking
More than 1,200 law firms, advocacy organizations, trade associations, companies, researchers, and others responded to the Federal Trade Commission’s Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) on “Commercial Surveillance and Data Security.” Significantly, the ANPR initiates a process that may result in comprehensive regulation of data privacy and security in the United States, and also marks […]
Five Big Questions (and Zero Predictions) for the U.S. State Privacy Landscape in 2023
Entering 2023, the United States remains one of the only global economic powers that lacks a comprehensive, national framework governing the collection and use of consumer data throughout the economy. Congress made unprecedented progress toward enacting baseline privacy legislation in 2022. However, the apparent impasse in the efforts to move H.R. 8152, the American Data […]
FPF Releases Comparative Analysis of California and U.K. Age-Appropriate Design Codes
The Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) today released a new policy brief comparing the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act (AADC), a first-of-its-kind privacy-by-design law in the United States, and the United Kingdom’s Age-Appropriate Design Code. While there are distinctions between the two codes, the California AADC, which is set to become enforceable on July 1, […]
FPF Urges Federal Trade Commission to Craft Practical Privacy Rules
FPF Comments Regarding FTC ANPR Urge the Commission to Provide Individuals with Strong, Enforceable Rights and Companies with Greater Clarity about their Obligations under Section 5 of the FTC Act. The Future of Privacy Forum filed comments regarding the Federal Trade Commission’s Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, recommending that the Commission prioritize practical rules that […]
Event Report: FPF Side Event and Workshop on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) at the 2022 Global Privacy Assembly (GPA)
The 2022 Global Privacy Assembly (GPA) – which brings together most global data protection authorities (DPAs) every year since 1979, to share knowledge and establish common priorities among regulators – took place between October 25 and 28, in Istanbul (Türkiye). The Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) was invited by the organizers of the GPA (the […]
GDPR and the AI Act interplay: Lessons from FPF’s ADM Case-Law Report
In May 2022, the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) launched a comprehensive Report analyzing case-law under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) applied to real-life cases involving Automated Decision-Making (ADM). Our research highlighted that the GDPR’s protections for individuals against forms of ADM and profiling go significantly beyond Article 22 – which provides for the […]
FPF Roundtable on Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning – 8 December 2022
Please register to attend the Roundtable on Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning on 8 December 2022 from 15:00 PM – 17:00 PM CET. The event will be hosted at the Microsoft Center, Rue Montoyer 51, Brussels 1000, Bruxelles, followed by a reception. We will do our best to accommodate as many in-person guests as possible, but please note […]
Federal Court deems university’s use of room scans within the home unconstitutional
I. Summary A federal court recently ruled that a public university’s use of room-scanning technology during a remotely proctored exam violated a student’s Fourth Amendment right to privacy. The decision in Ogletree v. CSU is the clearest indication to date of how courts will treat Fourth Amendment challenges to public higher education institutions’ use of […]
Meet David Sallay, FPF’s new Youth & Education Privacy Director
FPF is thrilled to announce the new Director of our Youth & Education Privacy Program, David Sallay. David comes to FPF from the Utah State Board of Education, where he previously served as the Chief Privacy Officer and the Student Privacy Auditor at the Utah State Board of Education, where he worked with schools and […]