WPF Main Landing Pages:

Annualcreditreport.com

Communications

Discussion Forum

Genetic Privacy

Internet privacy

Job scams

Job search privacy

Medical ID theft

Medical Privacy Project

NHIN (National Health Information Network)

PHR Page

Workplace Privacy Project

Agency comments

WPF Chronology

World Privacy Forum A to Z Index

Index of World Privacy Forum research, reports, consumer tips, agency comments, letters, analysis, issue briefs, speeches, and testimony. Also, links to main landing pages. Click a letter below.

A-C | D-F | G-I | J-L | M-O | P-R | S-U | W-Z

A - C

Advertising and Online Privacy

• Network Advertising Initiative: Failing at Consumer Protection and at Self-Regulation [report]
• Do Not Track Proposal [consensus document]
• Internet Privacy Page [landing page]

Agency Comments

• Agency Comments Page [landing page]

AHIC

• Comments on AHIC transition: no stakeholders left behind. [comment]
• Comments on AHIC workgroup hypothesis [comment]
• PHRs/NHIN/e-Health privacy [testimony]

AnnualCreditReport.com

• AnnualCreditReport.com Page [landing page]
• Call Don't Click, Full Report PDF [report]
• Call Don't Click, Executive Summary [report]
• How to order a free credit report [consumer]

Background Checks

Communications

• Communications Privacy Page [landing page]

Chronology

• Chronological listing of WPF resources [landing page]

CIPSEA

• WPF comments on proposed guidance on CIPSEA [comments]

Cloud Computing

• Cloud Computing Privacy [landing page]
• Privacy in the Clouds: Risks to Privacy and Confidentiality [report]

Consumer Tips and Consumer Alerts

• Complete listing of World Privacy Forum consumer tips [landing page]

Cookies

• How to say no to tracking cookies [consumer]
• WPF Top Ten Opt Out List [consumer]

Credit Freeze (Security Freeze)

• How to place a credit freeze [consumer]

Credit Reports

• AnnualCreditReport.com Page [landing page]
• How to order a free credit report [consumer]
• WPF Second report on Annualcreditreport.com [report]
• Top Ten Opt Out List [consumer]

D - F

Data Breaches

• AOL Data Breach
• CVS/Caremark case [comments]
• GAO data breach list [research ]

DNA

• See Genetic
• Comments of the World Privacy Forum on the Draft Report on Policy Issues Associated with Undertaking a Large U.S. Population Cohort Project on Genetics, Environment, and Disease. [comment]

Discussion Forum

• WPF Discussion Forum [landing page]

Do Not Track

• Do Not Track Proposal [consensus document]

Email

• Communications Privacy Page [landing page]
• Gmail letter [letter]

e-Health, EHR

• See Medical Privacy
• See NHIN page
• See NHIN Timeline
• See NCVHS Testimony
• See iPledge and RiskMAP testimony
• See Agency Comments under HHS

Events

• Events Page [landing page]

Fair Information Practices

• A Brief Introduction to Fair Information Practices [issue brief]

FAQs

• Access, Amendment, and Accounting of Disclosures: FAQs for Medical ID Theft Victims [consumer]

FDA

• iPledge and privacy [testimony]
• RiskMAPs and privacy standards [testimony]

Financial Privacy

• WPF Top Ten Opt Out List [consumer]
• Credit Freeze How To [consumer]
• Call Don't Click: Report on AnnualCreditReport.com [report]
• How to get a free credit report (tips) [consumer]
• Job scam prevention tips [consumer]
• Job scam report: A year in the life of a job scam. [report]

G - I

Genetic Privacy

• Genetic Privacy [landing page]
• ELSI and personalized medicine [comment]
• Genetic Databases: public comments [comment]
• Genetic Research: public comments [comment]
• Pharmacogenomics: recommendations [comment]
• Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act [comments]

GINA

• Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act [comments]

HHS

• See Agency Comments Page for complete listing of WPF comments to HHS. [landing page]

HIPAA

• A Patient's Guide to HIPAA [consumer resource]
• Comments to HHS on the importance of protecting patient rights and privacy [comment]
• Comments on Electronic Healthcare Claims Attachments [comment]

Identity

• Medical Identity Theft [landing page: report, consumer tips, FAQ for victims]
• Federal Identity Cards, testimony [testimony]
• Federal Identity Cards, joint comments [comment]
• Identity Theft Survey: comments to FTC [comment]
• ID Theft "Red Flags" draft rule; WPF comments to FTC [comment]
• President's Identity Theft Task Force, comments [comment]

Internet Privacy

• Internet Privacy Page [landing page]

iPledge

• WPF testimony regarding iPledge program [testimony]
• WPF testimony regarding FDA RiskMAPs [testimony]

IRS

• WPF agency comments to IRS (at EPIC web site) [comment]

J - L

Job Scams

• Job Scams Page
• A Year in the Life of a Job Scam, Report [report]
• Timeline: Evolution of a Job scam, Report & Visual chronology [report]
• Tips to avoid job scams [consumer]
• Job scam alert [consumer]

Job Search Privacy

• Job Search Privacy Page [landing page]
• Workplace Privacy Project Page [landing page]
• 2003 Job Search Privacy Study: Job Searching in the Networked Environment: Consumer Privacy Benchmarks
• 2003 Job Search Study Executive Summary [report]
• Consumers Guide to Job Search Sites, Report and interactive site [consumer]
• Resume privacy tips [consumer]
• Monster.com data breach consumer alert [consumer]

Kiosks

• Job application kiosks: Why is there less privacy for retail job seekers? [report]

M - O

Medical Identity Theft

• Medical Identity Theft Page [landing page]
• Access, Amendment, and Accounting of Disclosures: FAQs for Medical ID Theft Victims [consumer]
• Medical Identity Theft 2006, Full Report. [report]
• Tips to prevent medical identity theft [consumer]
• Medical Records Privacy [consumer]
• Responses to Medical Identity Theft: Eight Best-Practice Responses to Medical Identity Theft for Health Care Providers [issue analysis and research update]
• Medical Identity Theft: Issues and Responses [speech]
• Red Flag rule guidelines for identity theft [comment]

Medical Privacy

• Medical Privacy Project Page [landing page]
• Medical Identity Theft Page [landing page]
• National Health Information Network Page [landing page]
• A Patient's Guide to HIPAA [consumer]
• Access, Amendment, and Accounting of Disclosures: FAQs for Medical ID Theft Victims [consumer]
• Comments of the World Privacy Forum on the Draft Report on Policy Issues Associated with Undertaking a Large U.S. Population Cohort Project on Genetics, Environment, and Disease. [comment]
• Electronic Health Records (EHR) [testimony]
• HIPAA see Agency Comments Page for a complete list of agency comments
• HIPAA see also Medical Identity Theft Report
• Medical Identity Theft 2006, Full Report. [report]
• Medical Records Privacy [consumer]
• NHIN and Electronic Health Records Privacy [testimony]
• Tips to prevent medical identity theft [consumer]

NAI

• Network Advertising Initiative: Failing at Consumer Protection and at Self-Regulation [report]

NCVHS

• Electronic Health Records and the National Health Information Network: Patient Choice, Privacy, and Security in Digitized Environments. [testimony]
• Letter to NCVHS regarding secondary uses of health care data [letter]

NHIN (National Health Information Network)

• NHIN Page [landing page]
• NHIN Timeline [consumer]
• Joint comments on NHIN (WPF, EFF) [comment]

NSA

• NSA joint letter [letter]

Opt Out

• WPF Top Ten Opt Out List [consumer]

P - R

PGx (Pharmacogenomics)

• PGx privacy recommendations to the NIH [comment]

PHR (Personal Health Records)

• PHR Page [ landing page]
• Why Many PHRs Threaten Privacy [report]
• The Potential Privacy Risks in PHRs that Every Consumer Should Know About [ consumer advisory ]
• WPF testimony before AHIC on PHR privacy

Press

• Press Page [landing page]
• Media list sign up

Privacy Policy

• Privacy Policy: text

REAL ID

• Joint comments with EFF on REAL ID [comment]

Reports and Research

• Complete listing of World Privacy Forum reports and research [landing page]

Resources

• Privacy Resources and Organizations

Resume privacy

• Jobseekers' Guide to Resumes: Twelve Resume Posting Truths [consumer]
• Resume database privacy report [report]
• Resumes for sale [consumer]

RFID

• Joint comments on RFID in passports [comment]

RiskMAPs

• Lack of FDA attention to RiskMAP privacy standards [testimony]

S - U

Search

• Search Engine Privacy Tips [consumer]

Security Freeze

• How to place a security freeze [consumer]

Telemarketing

• Comments to the FCC on telemarketing [comment]
• Top Ten Opt Out List [consumer ]

Testimony

• FTC: Online Advertising, 2007. The NAI: Failing at Protecting Consumers, Failing at Self-Regulation. [testimony]
• FDA: iPledge program, 2007. Regarding Privacy and the iPledge Program. [testimony]

• Joint FDA /AHRQ Public Meeting, 2007. The Lack of FDA Attention to Privacy Standards in RiskMAPS has Resulted in the Unethical and Inappropriate Marketing of Patient Information Collected for Treatment Purposes. [testimony]

• California State Assembly Health Committee hearing on medical identity theft and data breach, April 2007. [testimony]

• American Health Information Community (AHIC), September 2006. Medical Identity Theft and Authentication Issues. [testimony]

• National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics, 2005. Electronic Health Records and the National Health Information Network: Patient Choice, Privacy, and Security in Digitized Environments. (HTML) (PDF). [testimony]

• California Senate Select Committee on the Legal, Social & Ethical Consequences of Emerging Technologies, 2005: Email As Personal Property vs. Private Communication. [testimony]

• California state senate banking, finance, and insurance committee hearing regarding Choicepoint, 2005: Information Civil Rights for Consumers: Why Fundamental Rights in a Digital Age are Necessary. [testimony]

• HSPD-12 Public Meeting, January 2005: Privacy Implications and Suggestions for FIPS 201 and the Federal ID Card Implementation. [testimony]

W - Z

What's New

• What's New Page [landing page]

Wiretap

• Letter re: California's two-way consent law [letter]

Workplace Privacy Project

• Workplace Privacy Project Page [landing page]

Workplace Privacy

• Workplace Privacy Project Page [landing page]
• Job Scams Page [landing page]
• Job Search Privacy Page [landing page]
• Consumer Guide to Job Search Privacy
• Resume privacy tips [consumer]
• Job scam safety tips [consumer]
• 2003 Job Search Study [report]
• 2004 Job Scam Study [report]

WHOIS

• WPF comments on Task Force 1 Preliminary Report on WHOIS database [comment]
• WPF comments on Task Force 2 Preliminary Report on WHOIS database [comment]