A Timely Post on Privacy from Visa Privacy Lead Russell Schrader
Visa’s Chief Privacy Officer, Russell Schrader, writes about Visa’s approach to consumer privacy and why their customers’ privacy is one of their top concerns. Click here for the full post.
Chris Wolf Participates in ITU Telecom World in Geneva
FPF’s Chris Wolf is currently participating in the International Telecommunications Union’s Telecom World in Geneva. The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) is part of the United Nations and handles issues in information and communications technology. Chris is on a panel discussing cybersecurity challenges and was also invited to submit his paper The Role of Government in Commercial […]
Privacy Legislation Low on Legislators' List of Priorities
Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA) participated in the State of the Net West conference on Tuesday of this week where she said prospects were bleak for any privacy legislation to make it through Congress this year. Even though online privacy tops Eshoo’s list of technological priorities, she believes it lands differently on Congress’ list. With debates […]
EPIC Honors Wall Street Journal for “What They Know” Series
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 […]
FPF Finds Nearly Three-Quarters of Most Downloaded Mobile Apps Lack A Privacy Policy
Earlier this week in the US Senate, the Privacy, Technology and Law Subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee held a hearing on mobile privacy issues. One focus of the hearing was the privacy of personal information collected and used by Apps on mobile devices, and one line of questioning concerned the absence of privacy policies for Apps […]
Guest Post: A Busy Time For Privacy and Security
The following is a guest post by David Hoffman, Director of Security Policy and Global Privacy Officer at Intel and FPF advisory board member. Check out A Busy Time For Privacy and Security and other posts by David on the Intel Policy Blog. A Busy Time For Privacy and Security The past two weeks have included […]
Walkthrough: Click at Your Own Risk
Walkthrough: Click at Your Own Risk FootballOutsider.com By Mike Tanier March 10, 2010 None of the scenarios listed below have happened yet, as far as we know: A star college quarterback sends a text message to five friends, bragging about his performance against a rival school. One of the friends forwards it to another set […]
Online Behavioral Advertising "Icon" Study
Executive Summary: In May 2009, the Future of Privacy Forum launched a research initiative to examine new methods for communicating with users about online advertising and privacy. This study assessed the communication efficacy of behavioral advertising disclosures based on icons and short disclosures placed near webpage advertisements as an alternative to providing transparency and choice […]
Future of Privacy Forum Unveils New Privacy and Personalization Symbols Finalists
Today Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) released two proposed icons designed to communicate to web users about the efforts of advertisers to tailor ads based on the websites they visit. In February 2009, the Federal Trade Commission expressed concern that privacy policies were not being read or understood, and urged the industry to develop new […]
Cookie Opt-in, Opt-out? How about stepping up?
EU companies are heaving sighs of relief after obtaining some text changes in the EU telecoms package passed this week in Brussels. Concerns that the proposed amendments to the ePrivacy Directive would have required cookies used for secondary purposes to be “opt-in” had trade groups scrambling, but elimination of the words “prior” and “after having […]