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[…] as they approach adulthood. For example, some career or scholarship quizzes may rely on profiling to tailor opportunities to a teen’s interests.  * * *  Looking to get up to speed on the existing state comprehensive consumer privacy laws? Check out FPF’s 2024 report, Anatomy of State Comprehensive Privacy Law: Surveying the State Privacy […]

[…] protection and use of data tech. Join FPF Managing Director of APAC, Josh Lee Kok Thong, Deputy Director for Asia-Pacific and China, Dominic Paulger, Policy Analyst for Global Privacy, Bilal Mohamed, Policy Associate for Asia-Pacific, Sakshi Shivhare and many others during this exciting week! Take a look below to get more details on these events.

[…] In some instances, users may not be aware of the risks involved in sharing personal information or, if aware, they might choose to “trust the system” to get the answers and assistance they need. In this scenario, the CGTP points out that safeguards should be developed to create privacy-friendly systems. One way to achieve […]

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 […]

[…] 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 […]

[…] design features and characteristics may make them susceptible to new kinds of security threats. Adversarial attacks on LLMs, such as the use of prompt injection attacks to get these models to reveal sensitive information (e.g., credit card information), can impact AI agents too. Besides causing an agent to reveal sensitive information without permission, prompt […]

[…] their state law and displaying that information.  2. Update your passwords and multi-factor authentication regularly  Password re-use is one of the top ways that unwanted eyes can get into your accounts: once one service where you used a password is breached, criminals will likely try the same username and password combination on other services […]