WPF and ADC Launch joint report on the Twin Transition at the OECD Ministerial

13 December, 2022 Gran Canarias, Spain The World Privacy Forum and the Argentina-based Asociación por los Derechos Civiles (ADC) today launched the first report in a project on the Twin Transition, green and digital. WPF Executive Director Pam Dixon will present the report, which is global in scope, to at the OECD Ministerial meeting today

India’s Ministry of Electronics and IT has opened a consultation on its freshly proposed comprehensive privacy legislation, DPDP 2022

After many study commissions and multiple serious attempts at a comprehensive data privacy bill, India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has proposed a new draft privacy bill, and has opened a public consultation regarding the draft until 17 December 2022. The Ministry states that the proposed bill, the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill 2022

WPF White House Briefing Outtakes on the New European Union – US Data Privacy Framework

7 October 2022 I was among a small handful of privacy experts present Thursday, 6 October at a White House briefing on the new European Union – US Data Privacy Framework, the replacement for the EU-US Privacy Shield agreement that was invalidated by the Schrems II decision in Europe. Today, 7 October, President Biden has

WHO Health Data Collaborative Meeting: high level overview

Last week, the World Health Organization held an in-person meeting of its health data collaborative leadership, its first face-to-face meeting of this group in four years. WPF attended as a constituency co-chair. Attendees included: members of the Ministries of Health and partner representation from Kenya, Malawi, Cameroon, Botswana, and Nepal; regional institutes’ representatives from KEMRI Welcome