The Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) invites privacy scholars and authors with an interest in privacy issues to nominate finished papers for consideration for FPF’s annual Privacy Papers for Policymakers...

A new exemption being proposed and considered in state legislatures across the country is resurfacing old debates around the contours of what constitutes biometric data. Biometric data has long been a...

A surveillance company wants to "close the gap" that Flock won't do, by pitching facial recognition on its cameras.

Delaware has become the latest state to update its comprehensive privacy law after Governor Meyer signed HB 380 on September 2, amending the Delaware Personal Data Privacy Act (DPDPA). More than half ...

Few areas of privacy and technology policy have attracted as much legislative attention this year as data-driven pricing or “surveillance pricing.” On August 4, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a h...

Attorney General Nick Brown today released the first-ever Washington State Attorney General’s Data Privacy Report. The report examines how the data economy incentivizes the collection and retention of...

Data brokers have been the subject of intense scrutiny in recent years, including through critical media coverage, public hearings, private lawsuits, regulatory enforcement actions, and new state and ...

Gov. Mikie Sherrill's administration is trying to walk back the impact of a new state law that could shut off political campaigns' access to key

Co-authored with Kelly Brandmeyer, FPF U.S. Policy Intern In a two-day span from June 28 to June 30, the New Jersey legislature introduced and passed A5328, amending New Jersey’s comprehensive privacy...

SignalTrace "links devices that regularly travel together, correlating them to license plate." It is a surveillance product that will sweep up and add all sorts of Bluetooth and other data to license ...

The Committee on Energy and Commerce is the oldest standing legislative committee in the U.S. House of Representatives and is vested with the broadest jurisdiction of any congressional authorizing com...

The Committee on Energy and Commerce is the oldest standing legislative committee in the U.S. House of Representatives and is vested with the broadest jurisdiction of any congressional authorizing com...

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<div> <p><span>Data minimization is a bedrock principle of privacy and data protection law, with origins in the Fair Information Practice Principles (FIPPs) an

<div> <p><span>Data minimization is a bedrock principle of privacy and data protection law, with origins in the Fair Information Practice Principles (FIPPs) an

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The Federal Trade Commission sent letters to 13 data brokers warning them of their responsibility to comply with the Protecting Americans’ Data from Foreign Adversaries Act of 2024 (PADFAA).

<p>When it comes to talking about autonomy, privacy law could use a little clarity. Its discourse uses terms like “choice,” “consent,” and “control” to evoke au

The U.S. privacy law landscape continues to mature as new laws go into effect, cure periods expire, and regulators interpret the law through enforcement actions and guidance. State attorneys general a...

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MADISON, Wis. — Democratic lawmakers in Wisconsin are advancing legislation to amend the state constitution, seeking to establish an individual, fundamental right to privacy for all Wisconsinites.

The Workshop on Consumer Injuries and Benefits in the Data-Driven Economy will bring together economists, academics, and other experts to examine how the agency can better understand and measure co

In this Article, we focus on a key dimension of commercial surveillance by data-intensive digital platforms that is too often treated as a supporting cast membe