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It’s one of the drawbacks of being on Facebook: If you never make any adjustments to your privacy settings, you can assume everyone can see everything you post, or do, while using the giant social media network . Facebook, founded by Mark Zuckerberg in 2004 and now claiming an astonishing 800 million users seems ready to give […]

FPF Co-chairs Chris Wolf and Jules Polonetsky presented today at the Online Trust Alliance (OTA) Forum. Wolf moderated the panel, “View from the Hill; Legislation Landscape & Regulatory Concerns- Looking into the Crystal Ball.” The panel captured the view that while there will most likely be no privacy and data stewardship legislation this year, self-regulatory […]

FTC Commissioner Julie Brill spoke at the Online Trust Alliance (OTA) Forum today and noted that the “industry has really stepped up to the plate” since the Commission released its Staff Report in Dec. 2010. Since the Report, browser companies including Microsoft, Mozilla, and Apple have implemented different models of Do Not Track. On the […]

“It’s the reputational harm that we are all concerned about,” said Chairwoman Mary Bono Mack (R-CA) at today’s hearing, the fourth in a series of hearings on online privacy.  Members of U.S. House’s Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade were in disagreement over how to best protect consumers online as consumer attitudes toward privacy […]

WASHINGTON (October 11, 2011)-In response to the report released today at the webcast event, “Yes, They Really Know It’s You: The Digital Collection of Personal Information from Consumers and Citizens,” sponsored by various privacy organizations, the Future of Privacy Forum issued the following statement: What the study fails to emphasize is that most companies targeting […]

Wednesday, June 15 at Computers Freedom and Privacy (CFP), three Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) Advisory Board members took the stage during a discussion about “Frontiers in Privacy.” Advisory Board member Professor Annie Anton moderated a discussion between Professors Peter Swire and Daniel Solove. The discussion was fast-paced and covered six topics–each getting a lightning-round […]

Earlier this week, FPF’s Co-Chair Christopher Wolf, had the pleasure of honoring The Wall Street Journal for its  “What They Know” series, on behalf of EPIC at a special event in Washington, D.C.   His remarks from that celebration are featured below: I am pleased to serve on EPIC’s Advisory Board and pleased to have been […]

For those that don’t know, January 28 is Data Privacy Day.  And although you may not have the title of  CEO at Facebook, we would like to pretend that you are in charge of it for the day. So what would you do if you were CEO of Facebook and you had to make some important decisions today? There’s a plethora of […]

It’s been an extremely busy few weeks in the privacy world as of late.   A little more than two weeks ago, the FTC released their long-awaited staff report on “Protecting Consumer Privacy in an Era of Rapid Change: A Proposed Framework for Businesses and Policymakers,”  and yesterday the Department of Commerce’s Internet Safety Task Force […]

For those of you who are unable to join us in person for the announcement of the leading “Privacy Papers for Policy Makers,” we have extended the following two options: To view the “Privacy Papers for Policy Makers” event live, click here: http://www.law.gwu.edu/News/Videos/Pages/Privacy.aspx  This event will be available for viewing on September 15 from 8 […]