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16 TH ANNUAL ADVISORY BOARD MEETING June 11–13, 2025 • Washington, D.C. Sovereignty, Localization, and Related Challenges to Effective Cybersecurity Discussion Leads: John Verdi and Jocelyn Aqua SESSION DESCRIPTION An increasing number of regulations seek to restrict or limit organizations’ ability to process data in certain countries or outside of specific jurisdictions. These restrictions are […]

16 TH ANNUAL ADVISORY BOARD MEETING June 11–13, 2025 • Washington, D.C. Global AI Legislation Discussion Leads: Lee Matheson and Josh Lee Kok Thong SESSION DESCRIPTION Principles, practices, then passed laws – the world is seeing a shift in the global AI regulatory conversation as legislators begin to draft, enact, and implement omnibus AI laws. […]

Today, FPF Senior Fellow Zoe Strickland testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Financial Services Subcommittee on Financial Institutions, providing expert insight about data privacy in the financial system, focusing specifically on rulemaking under Section 1033 of the Dodd-Frank Act.  With over 25 years of experience as a global chief privacy officer at Fortune 20 […]

Written Testimony of Zoe Strickland Senior Fellow, Future of Privacy Forum Before the U.S. House of Representatives Financial Services Subcommittee on Financial Institutions “Framework for the Future: Reviewing Data Privacy in Today’s Financial System” June 5, 2025 On behalf of the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF), I thank you for the opportunity to testify about […]

Today, the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) published a new paper—Data Minimization’s Substantive Turn: Key Questions & Operational Challenges Posed by New State Privacy Legislation. Data minimization is a bedrock principle of privacy and data protection law, with origins in the Fair Information Practice Principles (FIPPs) and the Privacy Act of 1974. At a high […]

In May 2025, Nebraska and Vermont passed Age-Appropriate Design Code Acts (AADCs), continuing the bipartisan trend of states advancing protections for youth online. While these new bills arrived within the same week and share both a common name and general purpose, their scope, applicability, and substance take two very different approaches to a common goal: […]

2023 ANNUAL REPORT FUTURE OF PRIVACY FORUM 1 CONTENTS About Future of Privacy Forum ____________________2 FPF’s Workstreams & Regions _____________________ 3 Leadership Letter _______________________________ 4 Navigating the Landscape ________________________ 5 Safegaurding Youth _____________________________ 7 Global Spotlight on Privacy _______________________ 8 The Year of Artificial Intelligence _________________10 FPF Analyses _________________________________ 12 Membership Community & Events _________________14 […]

On May 8, Montana Governor Gianforte signed SB 297, amending the Montana Consumer Data Privacy Act (MCDPA). This amendment was sponsored by Senator Zolnikov, who also championed the underlying law’s enactment in 2023. Much has changed in the state privacy law landscape since the MCDPA was first enacted, and SB 297 incorporates elements of further […]

Analysis and Commentary: “Re-identification” of Governor William Weld ©DCB-J July, 2012 1 The “Re-identification” of Governor William Weld’s Medical Information: A Critical Re-examination of Health Data Identification Risks and Privacy Protections, Then and Now Author: Daniel C. Barth-Jones, M.P.H., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. […]

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 […]