Ann Waldo, Jordan Wrigley
Time: Friday, Nov 14, 2025: 02:30 PM – 03:30 PM
AgeTech is moving ahead fast – remote monitoring tools, health apps, caregiving platforms, smart home devices, tools for caregivers, in-home surveillance, and robotic companions. While these technologies face privacy, security, and AI challenges familiar to privacy professionals, they also trigger novel and perplexing problems related to consent, agency, identity, and ethics. This session will explore the unique challenges of protecting older adults’ data, examining how gaps in current privacy practices create risks for older individuals and caregivers. Speakers will explore new AgeTech tools and discuss the patchwork quilt of applicable laws, the complexities of obtaining meaningful consent in caregiving contexts, and the implications of surveillance. The conversation will also address how organizations collect and process sensitive data, the heightened risks of fraud, and pathways toward building more mature privacy frameworks that support trust, autonomy, and safety for technology directed to older adults.
Ann Waldo, Principal, Waldo Law Office
Jordan Wrigley, Data and Policy Analyst, Health and Wellness, Future of Privacy Forum
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