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Who We Are

FPF is a global non-profit organization that convenes corporate leaders, academics, civil society, regulators, and policymakers to collaborate on data protection and technology initiatives that have real-world consumer impact and advance the utility of data and information technologies. Through testimony to regulatory agencies worldwide and the sharing of public research and insights via briefings, reports, and roundtables, FPF empowers stakeholders to navigate the evolving landscape of data protection and AI laws, technology regulation and digital governance. FPF also focuses on the development of responsible practices and perspectives to encourage innovation.

FPF operates offices in Washington, Brussels and Singapore with policy expertise across six continents, and brings the privacy and data protection community together through annual events, including the Brussels Privacy Symposium, the D.C. Privacy Forum, the Privacy Papers for Policymakers awards ceremony, and our annual meeting for Advisory Board members and Privacy Executives Summit.

FPF provides corporate membership for teams to stay ahead in an ever-changing privacy landscape, with in-depth tracking and analysis, peer convenings for senior leaders across sectors and locations, events and training, along with access to expert-led privacy communities and their exclusive resources via the FPF Member Portal. 

Major FPF initiatives include the Center for AI, the Research Coordination Network on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, the Data Protection Authorities PETS Network and U.S. and global privacy and digital regulatory update tracking.

FPF is a global nonprofit organization that advances principled and pragmatic data protection, AI and digital governance practices. FPF is incorporated as the FPF Education and Innovation Foundation, a not for profit 501c3 organization.