WPF is delighted to announce that WPF’s Executive Director Pam Dixon is co-chairing the American Bar Association’s National Consumer Protection Conference with Chris Olsen, formerly in the FTC’s Consumer Protection Bureau and now a partner at Wilson Sonsini. The conference will be hosted in San Diego 8-9 February, at the Westgate Hotel. Conference registration and
Thank you Chair and Commissioners. The profusion of health apps, websites and digital tools that provide consumers with assistance and insights about their health is a positive development. However, it has come at the cost of increasing privacy risks. One of these risks is that consumers are confused about when and where federal health privacy protections apply to their health information.
July 2022 Download a PDF The World Privacy Forum publishes and maintains A Patient’s Guide to HIPAA, which is a plain language explanation of how to use the law to guard your health privacy. This companion FAQ on HIPAA is focused on reproductive health privacy in response to the many questions we are receiving from
WPF is pleased to announce a new project examining the intersection between poverty and privacy in the United States. In the United States, the prevailing discussions about privacy rarely contemplate the poor, or how — or where — the poor or financially stressed may experience privacy challenges. This is also true of many legislative discussions regarding data governance, data protection, and privacy; there is generally not routine scrutiny of the intersection and impacts of proposed statutory language or approaches regarding those who live at or below the poverty level.
After many years of participating as a civil society delegate at OECD, WPF’s executive director Pam Dixon has been voted onto the steering committee for OECD’s civil society arm, CSISAC. “It is an honor to be voted in by my fellow members of civil society to the CSISAC steering committee, and I am looking forward