The World Privacy Forum was honored to participate in a White House Roundtable on the topic of Data Brokers, a topic WPF has spent decades researching and working on. In its readout of the roundt...
The World Privacy Forum filed comments regarding the US Federal Trade Commission’s 2023 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking regarding Health Breach Notification. This marks the second set of comments...
Pam Dixon, WPF Executive Director, is testifying before the US Senate Banking Committee today on the topic of privacy, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, data brokers, and predictive analytics. “I ...
The World Privacy Forum has submitted a set of key comments to the US Federal Trade Commission regarding privacy frameworks and governance. The comments introduce the idea of knowledge governance...
WPF is issuing this statement in response to the New York Times article dated 18 December, 2018 regarding Facebook's data practices. The article provides meaningful new information about the dat...
The current debate over federal privacy regulation must be inclusive of secondary and tertiary uses of consumer data. WPF Executive Director Pam Dixon says: "Through our longstanding work regardi...
PDF Version of Release here 24 May 2018 For Immediate Release Historic Data Broker Regulation in the United States Welcomed by World Privacy Forum Vermont: First state to adopt modern rules for...
Have you ever filled out an application online for a “loan matching service”? If so, you have to hope that you didn’t fill out an application on one of the websites operated by a company ca...
https://www.worldprivacyforum.org/2017/07/some-online-loan-applications-endanger-consumers/
Television maker VIZIO is paying $2.2 million in penalties to settle charges after the FTC and the New Jersey Attorney General's office brought a complaint against the company for violating its c...
We have updated our popular Top Ten Opt Outs page for consumers. All of the links are fresh, and we have updated the text where it had gotten stale. I am frequently asked which of the opt outs is...
https://www.worldprivacyforum.org/2016/06/updated-wpfs-top-ten-opt-outs-for-consumers/