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[…] Article 1 of the LGPD identifies the objective of the law as ensuring the processing of personal data protects the fundamental rights of freedom, privacy, and the free development of personality.3 At the same time, Article 2 of the LGPD recognizes data protection is “grounded” on economic and technological development and innovation.  The study […]

In May 2025, Nebraska and Vermont passed Age-Appropriate Design Code Acts (AADCs), continuing the bipartisan trend of states advancing protections for youth online. While these new bills arrived within the same week and share both a common name and general purpose, their scope, applicability, and substance take two very different approaches to a common […]

[…] lowest numerical applicability thresholds of any of the state comprehensive privacy laws when the law was enacted in 2023. At that time, prior comprehensive privacy laws in Virginia, Colorado, Utah, Connecticut, Iowa, and Indiana all applied to controllers that either (1) control or process the personal data of at least 100,000 consumers (“the general […]

[…] values are replaced with broader, less precise categories. Examples include replacing an exact birth date with just the birth year or an age range, a specific ZIP code with a larger geographic area, or a specific occupation with a broader job category. This is a core technique used to achieve k-anonymity. While it reduces […]

[…] thanking the winning authors, discussants, event team, and FPF’s Daniel Hales for their contributions. He highlighted FPF’s role in bringing together academia, policy, and industry experts to promote meaningful discussions on privacy. Read the 15th Annual Privacy Papers for Policymakers Digest dsc 0747 DSC_0747 dsc 0742 DSC_0742 dsc 0752 dsc 0777 DSC_0777 dsc 0795 […]

[…] meet international commitments1. According to the Chilean government, the approved LPPD pursues the dual objective of (i) providing stronger protection for data subjects and (ii) regulating and promoting the country’s digital economy.2  This blog covers some of the new features in the LPPD, including:   Extraterritoriality: the new law applies to private and public organizations […]

[…] of where they are based in the world, must make data related to the use of connected devices readily available to EU-based users and recipients. Initiatives to promote the EU’s digital sovereignty and minimise the need to transfer data to centralized foreign platforms can also be expected to gain momentum. The rise of China […]

[…] must undergo a serious reckoning with privacy law. Scraping has evaded a reckoning with privacy law largely because scrapers act as if all publicly available data were free for the taking. But the public availability of scraped data shouldn’t give scrapers a free pass. Privacy law regularly protects publicly available data, and privacy principles […]

[…] annually on January 28 to mark the anniversary of Convention 108, the first binding international treaty to protect personal data. To raise awareness for the day and promote best practices for data privacy, we’ve partnered with Snap to create a Data Privacy Day Snapchat Lens that lets you choose what type of privacy pup […]

[…] AI legislation. Maryland passed the  Maryland Online Data Privacy Act (MODPA) as well as the Maryland Age-Appropriate Design Code Act” (Maryland AADC).  Following Connecticut’s lead last year, Virginia and Colorado both amended their state privacy laws to add specific online protections for kids’ data. FPF also examined genetic privacy laws from Montana, Tennessee, Texas, […]