What Privacy Papers Should Policymakers be Reading in 2016?

Stacy Gray at the Future of Privacy Forum: “Each year, FPF invites privacy scholars and authors to submit articles and papers to be considered by members of our Advisory Board, with an aim toward showcasing those articles that should inform any conversation about privacy among policymakers in Congress, as well as at the Federal Trade Commission and in other government agencies. For our sixth annual Privacy Papers for Policymakers, we received submissions on topics ranging from mobile app privacy, to location tracking, to drone policy.

Our Advisory Board selected papers that describe the challenges and best practices of designing privacy notices, ways to minimize the risks of re-identification of data by focusing on process-based data release policy and taking a precautionary approach to data release, the relationship between privacy and markets, and bringing the concept of trust more strongly into privacy principles.

Our top privacy papers for 2015 are, in alphabetical order:

A Design Space for Effective Privacy Notices

Florian Schaub, Rebecca Balebako, Adam L. Durity, and Lorrie Faith Cranor

Anonymization and Risk

Ira S. Rubinstein and Woodrow Hartzog

A Precautionary Approach to Big Data Privacy

Arvind Narayanan, Joanna Huey, and Edward W. Felten

Privacy and Markets: A Love Story

Ryan Calo

Taking Trust Seriously in Privacy Law
Neil Richards and Woodrow Hartzog

Our two papers selected for Notable Mention are:

Going Dark: Encryption, Technology, and the Balance Between Public Safety and Privacy

Peter Swire (Testimony, Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing, July 8, 2015)

The Transparent Citizen

Joel R. Reidenberg

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