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Each WPF report is hosted on a dedicated report landing page. Most reports are best viewed as a PDF download, links available on the landing pages. Analysis & Report: Redress Revisited: Has the Privacy Shield Agreement Between the U.S. and the EU Been Fatally Undermined by President Trump’s Executive Order 13768? Report: EU-US Privacy Shield Analysis: Winners and Losers Report: Privacy, the Precision Medicine Initiative, & the All of Us Research Program: Will Any Legal Protections Apply? Report: The Scoring of America Report: Data Brokers and the Federal Government Report: Paying Out of Pocket to Protect Health Privacy – A New but Complicated HIPAA Option Report: One Way Mirror Society Report: Medical Identity Theft – The Information Crime that Can Kill You Report: Many Failures – A Brief History of Privacy Self-Regulation Report: The US Department of Commerce and International Privacy Activities — Indifference and Neglect Report: Personal Health Records – Why Many PHRs Threaten Privacy Report: Privacy in the Clouds Older WPF reports: Report: The National Advertising Initiative – Failing at Consumer Protection and at Self-Regulation Report: 2003 Job Search Privacy Study Report: A Year in the Life of an Online Job Scam – A Longitudinal Study Report: Call Don’t Click I – Why it’s smarter to order federally mandated free credit reports via telephone Report: Call Don’t Click II: Still be smart about ordering federally mandated free credit reports Report: Resume Database Nightmare – Job Seeker Privacy at Risk WPF updates and news CALENDAR EVENTS

WHO Constituency Meeting WPF co-chair

6 October 2022, Virtual

OECD Roundtable WPF expert member and participant Cross-Border Cooperation in the Enforcement of Laws Protecting Privacy

4 October 2022, Paris, France and virtual

OECD Committee on Digital and Economic Policy fall meeting WPF participant

27-28 September 2022, Paris, France and virtual more Recent TweetsWorld Privacy Forum@privacyforum·7 OctExecutive Order On Enhancing Safeguards For United States Signals Intelligence Activities The White House https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2022/10/07/executive-order-on-enhancing-safeguards-for-united-states-signals-intelligence-activities/Reply on Twitter 1578431679592427526Retweet on Twitter 1578431679592427526Like on Twitter 1578431679592427526TOP REPORTS National IDs Around the World — Interactive map About this Data Visualization: This interactive map displays the presence... Report: From the Filing Cabinet to the Cloud: Updating the Privacy Act of 1974 This comprehensive report and proposed bill text is focused on the Privacy Act of 1974, an important and early Federal privacy law that applies to the government sector and some contractors. The Privacy Act was written for the 1970s information era -- an era that was characterized by the use of mainframe computers and filing cabinets. Today's digital information era looks much different than the '70s: smart phones are smarter than the old mainframes, and documents are now routinely digitized and stored and perhaps even analyzed in the cloud, among many other changes. The report focuses on why the Privacy Act needs an update that will bring it into this century, and how that could look and work. This work was written by Robert Gellman, and informed by a two-year multi-stakeholder process. COVID-19 and HIPAA: HHS’s Troubled Approach to Waiving Privacy and Security Rules for the Pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic strained the U.S. health ecosystem in numerous ways, including putting pressure on the HIPAA privacy and security rules. The Department of Health and Human Services adjusted the privacy and security rules for the pandemic through the use of statutory and administrative HIPAA waivers. While some of the adjustments are appropriate for the emergency circumstances, there are also some meaningful and potentially unwelcome privacy and security consequences. At an appropriate time, the use of HIPAA waivers as a response to health care emergencies needs a thorough review. This report sets out the facts, identifies the issues, and proposes a roadmap for change.