Protected: K-12 Privacy Leaders Working Group Notes and Resources
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Advisory Board Reviewers for PPPM 2017
Each year, FPF awards the Privacy Papers for Policymakers Award to the authors of leading privacy research and analytical work that is relevant to policymakers in the United States Congress, at U.S. federal agencies, and for data protection authorities abroad. The Award showcases work that analyzes current and emerging privacy issues and proposes achievable short-term solutions […]
FPF Welcomes New Team Members
The Future of Privacy Forum is delighted to welcome several new members to our team!
Smart Grid
The Future of Privacy Forum and TRUSTe Launch a Smart Grid Privacy Seal Program The Future of Privacy Forum has developed a first of its kind privacy seal program for companies providing services to consumers that rely on energy data. The seal is powered by TRUSTe, a leading data privacy management company. Consumer services that access information about […]
Upcoming Future of Privacy Forum Events
In the coming months, FPF will be hosting or co-hosting a number of events. We welcome your attendance and participation. Please contact us at [email protected] for further information.
The Top 10: Student Privacy News (July – August 2017)
The Future of Privacy Forum tracks student privacy news very closely, and shares relevant news stories with our newsletter subscribers. Approximately every month, we post “The Top 10,” a blog with our top student privacy stories. This blog is cross-posted at www.ferpasherpa.org.
Smart Cities Need Smart Privacy Protections: FPF seeks public comments on proposed Open Data Risk Assessment for the City of Seattle
The Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) requests feedback from the public on the proposed City of Seattle Open Data Risk Assessment. In 2016, the City of Seattle declared in its Open Data Policy that the city’s data would be “open by preference,” except when doing so may affect individual privacy. To ensure its Open Data program effectively protects individuals, Seattle committed to performing an annual risk assessment and tasked FPF with creating and deploying an initial privacy risk assessment methodology for open data.
Meet FPF's 2017 Summer Interns!
We are pleased to introduce FPF’s 2017 Summer Interns. FPF interns work with policy staff on a range of substantive projects. They perform research and craft analysis regarding the intersection of privacy and emerging technologies, including: connected cars, the Internet of Things, education technologies, smart communities, de-identification, advertising technology, biometrics, and genetic analysis.
DPAs/Enforcement
Investigations, sanctions CNIL publicly served a formal notice to WhatsApp, claiming the lack of legal basis for the company transferring data to Facebook after its acquisition. CNIL is the latest DPA that went after connected toys (“My friend Cayla” and “I-que”). It served a “formal notice to cease serious breach of privacy due to lack […]
Case-law (CJEU, ECHR, national courts)
CJEU The CJEU decided in Case C-434/16 Nowak that the written answers to a test, as well as the examiner’s comments on those answers, are personal data of the person who takes the test. However, the questions of the test are not personal data (this may result in a situation where a person receives a […]