A Historical Primer on Section 215 Bulk Collection
Over on the IAPP’s Privacy Tracker blog, FPF Senior Fellow explains how the past week has seen two significant events concerning Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act. First, on May 7, the Second Circuit ruled that “the telephone metadata program exceeds the scope of what Congress has authorized and therefore violates” Section 215. And yesterday, the House of Representatives approved the […]
De-Identification: A Critical Debate
Ann Cavoukian and Dan Castro recently published a report titled Big Data and Innovation, Setting the Record Straight: De-Identification Does Work. Arvind Narayanan and Edward Felten wrote a critique of this report, which they highlighted on Freedom to Tinker. Today Khaled El Emam and Luk Arbuckle respond on the FPF blog with this guest post. […]
Press Release: EU-US Safe Harbor Essential To Leading European Companies
NEW FPF STUDY DOCUMENTS OVER 150 EUROPEAN COMPANIES PARTICIPATING IN THE US-EU SAFE HARBOR PROGRAM. FROM MAJOR EMPLOYERS SUCH AS ALCATEL LUCENT, ADIDAS, BMW, NOKIA TO FAST-GROWING START-UPS LIKE APP DEVELOPER MIND CANDY, EUROPEAN COMPANIES DEPEND ON EU-US AGREEMENT _____________________________________________________________________________________ The Future of Privacy Forum has conducted a study of the US-EU Safe Harbor program […]
FPF Privacy Papers 2013
Privacy Papers for Policy Makers 2013 The publication of “Privacy P apers for Policy M akers” was supported by AT&T, Microsoft, and GMAC. January 1 st, 2014 We are delighted to provide you with FPF’s fourth annual “Privacy Papers for Policy Makers,” representing cutting -edge research and analytical work on a variety of important privacy […]
Big Data and Privacy Paper Collection
Solutions to many pressing economic and societal challenges lie in better understanding data. New tools for analyzing disparate information sets, called Big Data, have revolutionized our ability to find signals amongst the noise. Big Data techniques hold promise for b reakthroughs ranging from better health care, a cleaner environment, safer cities, and more effective marketing. […]
GOVERNMENT — Freiwald Big Data's Muddled Mass
Page 1 Managing the Muddled Mass of Big D ata By Susan Freiwald University of San Francisco School of Law A t the same time that Big Data promises previ ously unobtainable insights, its use places significant p ressure on three significant methods of legal regulation to protect privacy. First , because Big Data merge […]
Freiwald – Big Data's Muddy Mass
Managing the Muddled Mass of Big D ata By Susan Freiwald University of San Francisco School of Law A t the same time that “Big Data” promises previ ously unobtainable insights, its use places significant p ressure on two significant methods of legal regulation to protect privacy. Specifically, because Big Data merge s data from […]
Leonard – Big Data Analytics
page | 1 B IG D ATA ANALYTICS : EVOLVING BUSINESS MOD ELS AND GLOBAL PRIVACY REGULATION Peter Leonard, Partner, Gilbert + Tobin Lawyers, Australia and Director, iappANZ [email protected] 13 August 2013 At the heart of the current global debate as to how privacy regulation should address big data lie three questions: Can national […]
Colonna – Mo Data Mo Problems
1 M O’ DATA , M O’ PROBLEMS ? PERSONAL DATA M INING AND THE CHALLENGE TO THE DATA M INIMIZATION PRINCIPLE Liane Colonna 1. Introduction Data minimization is a bedrock principle of data protection law. It is enshrined in privacy regulations all around the world including the OECD Guidelines, the EU Data Protection Directive, […]
GOVERNMENT – Freiwald – Big Data's Muddy Mass
Managing the Muddled Mass of Big D ata By Susan Freiwald University of San Francisco School of Law A t the same time that “Big Data” promises previ ously unobtainable insights, its use places significant p ressure on two significant methods of legal regulation to protect privacy. Specifically, because Big Data merge s data from […]