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Future of Privacy Forum Launches its Asia-Pacific Office Led by Dr. Clarisse Girot
The Future of Privacy Forum’s Asia-Pacific office launches today in Singapore under the leadership of Dr. Clarisse Girot. As Director of the FPF Asia-Pacific office, she is responsible for developing and implementing FPF’s strategy in the world’s biggest and most populated region. We have asked Dr. Girot to share her thoughts for FPF’s blog on […]
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FPF and Leading Health & Equity Organizations Issue Principles for Privacy & Equity in Digital Contact Tracing Technologies
With support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, FPF engaged leaders within the privacy and equity communities to develop actionable guiding principles and a framework to help bolster the responsible implementation of digital contact tracing technologies (DCTT). Today, seven privacy, civil rights, and health equity organizations signed on to these guiding principles for organizations implementing […]
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Now, On the Internet, EVERYONE Knows You’re a Dog
Digital identity systems vary in complexity. At its most basic, a digital ID would simply recreate a physical ID in a digital format, whereasa fully integrated digital identity system would provide a platform for a complete wallet and verification process, usable both online and in the physical world.
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At the intersection of AI and Data Protection law: Automated Decision-Making Rules, a Global Perspective (CPDP LatAm Panel)
On Thursday, 15th of July 2021, the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) organised during the CPDP LatAm Conference a panel titled ‘At the Intersection of AI and Data Protection law: Automated Decision Making Rules, a Global Perspective’. The aim of the Panel was to explore how existing data protection laws around the world apply to profiling and automated decision making practices.
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Spotlight on the Emerging Chinese Data Protection Framework: Lessons Learned from the Unprecedented Investigation of Didi Chuxing
As China is making headlines with its ramped up efforts to build a comprehensive data protection, privacy and cybersecurity legal framework with broad extraterritorial effects, a recent landmark enforcement action of the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) against one of the largest tech companies in the country shines a light on how the future privacy […]
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Event Recap: Dublin Privacy Symposium 2021, Designing for Trust: Enhancing Transparency & Preventing User Manipulation
Key Takeaways The biggest challenge to increase UX transparency may be encouraging people to make deliberate decisions from a UX design perspective. Even designers’ color and shape choices in UI can be subtle ‘dark patterns’ that might even prevent, e.g., color-blind users from understanding the options at hand. Organizations should ask themselves whether they should […]
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FPF and Data Privacy Brasil Webinar: Understanding ‘Legitimate Interests’ as a lawful ground under the LGPD
Author: Katerina Demetzou On Thursday, 20th of May 2021, the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) and Data Privacy Brasil (DPB) co-hosted an online event for launching the English translation of a Report on Legitimate Interests as a lawful ground for processing personal data under Brazil’s Data Protection Law, the Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados […]
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Research from Stanford Medicine and Empatica, Inc: Early Detection of COVID-19 Using Empatica Smartwatch Data
Tejaswini Mishra, PhD, Michael Snyder, PhD, Erika Mahealani Hunting, Alessandra Celli, Arshdeep Chauhan, and Jessi Wanyi Li from the Stanford University School of Medicine’s Department of Genetics, and Empatica Inc. are the recipients of the second-annual FPF Award for Research Data Stewardship. The collaboration between the research team from Stanford Medicine and Empatica, a medical […]
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FPF Issues Award for Research Data Stewardship to Stanford Medicine & Empatica, Google & Its Academic Partners
WASHINGTON, DC (June 29, 2021) – The second-annual FPF Award for Research Data Stewardship honors two teams of researchers and corporate partners for their commitment to privacy and ethical uses of data in their efforts to research aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic. One team is a collaboration between Stanford Medicine researchers led by Tejaswini Mishra, PhD, Professor […]