Congressman Rush Pushes Privacy Agenda With Introduction of Bill
Yesterday Illinois Congressman Bobby Rush, Chairman of the Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection introduced H.R. 5777 the “Building Effective Strategies To Promote Responsibility Accountability Choice Transparency Innovation Consumer Expectations and Safeguards Act”, or BEST PRACTICES Act of 2010. The bill adds to the contentious privacy debate that came […]
Right Now is the Time to Address Privacy Issues and the Smart Grid
Last week, two events generated press coverage about privacy advocates sounding the alarm about privacy and the smart grid. The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) held a smart grid hearing which included a focus on consumer privacy and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy collected comments on the topic of who owns […]
Deloitte Event: The Future of Privacy & Data Security
Please be our guest… The Future of Privacy & Data Security: A Briefing on Related Legal Issues and Leading Practices Wednesday, June 3, 2009 5:00pm – 7:00pm Remarkable developments in privacy and data security law and business practices have already been seen in 2009 and more changes are on the horizon. Come, hear, and interact […]
Search and Privacy
Alissa Cooper, at the Center for Democracy and Technology, has just published a superb paper on search log files. She does a great job at walking through all the reasons search engines retain a person’s searches, flags the privacy risks of having those queries sitting around log term, and reviews potential solutions. >> Read More
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Future of Privacy Forum Announces Annual Privacy and AI Leadership Awards
New internship program established in honor of former FPF staff Washington, D.C. – June 12, 2025 — The Future of Privacy Forum (FPF), a global non-profit focused on data protection, AI and emerging technologies, announced the recipients of the 2025 FPF Achievement Awards, honoring exceptional contributors to AI and privacy leadership in the public and […]
The Curse of Dimensionality: De-identification Challenges in the Sharing of Highly Dimensional Datasets
The 2006 release by AOL of search queries linked to individual users and the re-identification of some of those users is one of the best known privacy disasters in internet history. Less well known is that AOL had released the data to meet intense demand from academic researchers who saw this valuable data set as essential […]
