News, Press, and Media
About World Privacy Forum press info, contact, and media coverage
A list of stories WPF has been quoted in from our early work to our most recent.
Press Contact:
+1 760-712-4281 or info@worldprivacyforum.org.
World Privacy Forum and the Media:
The World Privacy Forum is a non-profit public interest research group with well-established privacy expertise. WPF is widely cited in major news outlets, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, the Associated Press, Forbes, CNN, ABC News, CBS News, NBC news, NPR, Time, Newsweek, Modern Healthcare, Politico, International Herald Tribune, International Business Times, Wissen, Agence France Presse, and many others.
Press Releases:
See below.
A PATIENTS’ GUIDE TO HIPAA: NEW E-BOOK + COMPLETE UPDATE For immediate release 5 March 2019 Oregon: World Privacy Forum’s classic and highly popular health privacy resource for consumers, A Patient’s Guide to HIPAA, has been given a complete end-to-end update and is now also available as an ebook. A Patient’s Guide to HIPAA
WPF Executive Director Pam Dixon was named as a Top 100 Influencer in Identity by One World Identity. OWI describes the list as including the “Top 100 people to know in 2019: pioneers who are leading the charge to improve identity….
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 data management and privacy practices of Facebook.
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 regarding data brokers and related harms to consumers, it is abundantly clear that if Congress enacts privacy legislation that fails to effectively regulate data brokers and stop the consumer harms they directly cause, any legislation enacted will be a failure.”
WPF will be speaking and/or participating in the following events this summer and fall. Please join us, or let us know if you will be attending. Global Forum on Artificial Intelligence, Swiss Re Center for Global Dialogue, 9-10 July 2018. Zurich, Switzerland. Pam Dixon, WPF Executive Director, delegate. Europlace International Financial Forum, 11-12 July 2018.
