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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.
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.
WPF will be speaking and/or participating in the following events this March. Please join us, or let us know if you will be attending. March 6: Medical ID Theft Update, IPPC U.S. Working Group Executive Director Pam Dixon is presenting a webinar to members of the IPPC US Working Group. The webinar, to be held
Here is a spring 2018 update on a selection of privacy stories WPF has been quoted in over the past few months, many of them quoting our work on privacy. For more articles, see our full World Privacy Forum in the News page. In you missed our recent posts on data ethics and our test of
