News, Press, and Media
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.
20 June 2024 — The World Privacy Forum is very pleased to announce Avni Sinha as a senior research fellow at the World Privacy Forum. She will be conducting research in the areas of data governance and privacy, public interest technology and policy, and AI. Avni comes to WPF from her role working with Dr. Latanya Sweeney at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School
The World Privacy Forum is delighted to announce that award-winning technology journalist Kate Kaye will join WPF as its deputy director. As a longstanding technology journalist, Kate has been at the forefront of emerging technology, data privacy, and governance issues. Her reporting exposed the earliest forms of online political microtargeting and voter data use, explained
The World Privacy Forum has been selected as a civil society delegate for the OECD Expert Group that will be revising the Recommendation on Cross-Border Enforcement of Laws Protecting Privacy. WPF is a delegate on behalf of CSISAC (CSISAC is the formal Civil society stakeholder group at OECD). The original OECD Recommendation was published and ratified
WPF is extremely proud to announce that our founder and Executive Director Pam Dixon has been selected to receive a Pioneer Award from EFF. “I am surprised and pleased in equal measure,” said Dixon. “The truth of any award such as this is that I share it with many individuals and groups, all of whom
WPF has been recognized as one of the leading organizations globally influencing privacy, security, inclusion, and fairness in digital identity systems. Goode Intelligence, which produces an annual report on digital identity around the world, has named WPF as a top ten globally influencing organization, as well as ID4Africa, Women in Identity, and others. WPF has
