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The US Postal Service's new Informed Delivery system has the potential to impact every household in the United States that receives mail. It's important, and there are plenty of privacy issues. T...

https://www.worldprivacyforum.org/2016/09/united-states-postal-service-informed-delivery-plan-puts-consumers-at-risk/

Forget worrying about loyalty cards or programs: it’s the everyday purchases you make tied to your name with a debit or credit card that can land you on data brokers’ lists. That is one of th...

https://www.worldprivacyforum.org/2014/05/ftcs-data-broker-report-brings-new-facts-to-light-about-how-consumer-data-is-captured-and-sold/

Data breach -- The state of California issues a first-ever statewide data breach report. In 2012, 2.5 million Californians had their data breached. Of those breached, the study found that The rep...

https://www.worldprivacyforum.org/2013/07/blog-california-issues-first-statewide-breach-report/

India's national biometric ID card -- In the May/June, 2013 issue of Foreign Policy Magazine, Pam Dixon writes about the privacy issues related to India's national biometric ID card. In the piece...

https://www.worldprivacyforum.org/2013/04/blog-pam-dixon-writes-about-indias-national-id-card-in-mayjune-issue-of-foreign-policy-magazine/

WPF on privacy and consumer trust -- Pam Dixon is speaking on a panel on privacy and trust at Marketing Science Institute in Boston. The panel, led by John Deighton of the Harvard Business School...

https://www.worldprivacyforum.org/2013/04/blog-wpf-on-panel-of-msi/

Reputation and privacy -- Pam Dixon spoke at the Southwestern Law School Privacy Conference on the topic of reputational privacy Friday the 22cnd along with Neville Johnson and Paul Tweed. Dixon ...

https://www.worldprivacyforum.org/2013/02/blog-consumer-experiences-of-job-searching-and-online-reputation/

Facial recognition -- Pam Dixon spoke at a CES panel on privacy issues in facial recognition technologies as part of the Leaders in Technology program at CES. The panel was moderated by Tony Romm...

https://www.worldprivacyforum.org/2013/01/blog-leaders-in-technology-wpf-on-ces-panel-on-facial-recognition/

01/23/2012 GPS tracking | United States v. Jones -- The US Supreme Court unanimously ruled that police must get a warrant before using GPS devices to track criminal suspects. This case was narrow...

https://www.worldprivacyforum.org/2012/01/blog-us-supreme-court-delivers-opinion-about-gps-tracking/

FTC Privacy Roundtable -- WPF executive director Pam Dixon will testify at the FTC Privacy Roundtable about information brokers and commercial data practices and they impact consumers. Dixon will...

https://www.worldprivacyforum.org/2009/12/blog-ftc-privacy-roundtable-wpf-to-testify-on-information-brokers/

Genetic non-discrimination regulations (GINA) -- The World Privacy Forum filed comments on proposed regulations for implementing Title I of GINA, the Genetic Non-Discrimination Act. The WPF reque...

https://www.worldprivacyforum.org/2009/12/blog-wpf-comments-on-genetic-non-discrimination-to-hhs/