Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz said Thursday that wireless operators should require their customers to use a password to access the voicemail on their mobile phones. The problem for Leibowitz, as he was quick to note, is that his agenc…

A May poll conducted by Consumer Reports shows that two-thirds of consumers feel that the government should be involved with safeguarding their online privacy, while 81 percent of respondents agreed that they should be able to permanently opt out of In…

Regular readers will have come across (or participated in shaping) some of my work over the last year as I looked at the different ways that device identity and personal identity collide in mobile location technology.
In the early days following Google…

With hundreds of thousands of online and mobile applications already in use and more being developed, the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) today launched a new website to help application developers provide users with privacy protections. Supported by app…