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On September 10th, FPF provided comments regarding draft regulations for implementing the heightened minor protections within the Colorado Privacy Act (“CPA”). Passed in 2021, the CPA, a Washington Privacy Act style-framework, provides comprehensive privacy protections to consumers in Colorado that are enforced by the state Attorney General’s office, which also has rulemaking authority. In 2024, […]

Conversational AI technologies are hyper-personalizing. Across sectors, companies are focused on offering personalized experiences that are tailored to users’ preferences, behaviors, and virtual and physical environments. These range from general purpose LLMs, to the rapidly growing market for LLM-powered AI companions, educational aides, and corporate assistants. There are clear trends among this overall focus: towards […]

Washington, D.C. – September 12, 2025  — The Future of Privacy Forum, a global non-profit focused on data protection, AI and emerging technologies today announced that it has honored Julie Brill with its Lifetime Achievement Award. The award recognizes Brill’s decades of leadership and profound impact on the fields of consumer protection, data protection and […]

This post is the fourth and final blog post in a series on personality versus personalization in AI systems. Read Part 1 (exploring concepts), Part 2 (concrete uses and risks), and Part 3 (intersection with U.S. law). Conversational AI technologies are hyper-personalizing. Across sectors, companies are focused on offering personalized experiences that are tailored to […]

This post is the third in a series on personality versus personality in AI systems. Read Part 1 (exploring concepts) and Part 2 (concrete uses and risks).   Conversational AI technologies are hyper-personalizing. Across sectors, companies are focused on offering personalized experiences that are tailored to users’ preferences, behaviors, and virtual and physical environments. These […]

This post is the second in a multi-part series on personality versus personalization in AI systems, providing an overview of these concepts and their use cases, concrete risks, legal considerations, and potential risk management for each category. The previous post provided an introduction to personality versus personalization.  In AI governance and public policy, the many […]

Conversational AI technologies are hyper-personalizing. Across sectors, companies are focused on offering personalized experiences that are tailored to users’ preferences, behaviors, and virtual and physical environments. These range from general purpose LLMs, to the rapidly growing market for LLM-powered AI companions, educational aides, and corporate assistants. There are clear trends among this overall focus: towards […]

The widespread adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) continues to impact societies and economies around the world. Policymakers worldwide have begun pushing for normative frameworks to regulate the design, deployment, and use of AI according to their specific ethical and legal standards. In Latin America, some countries have joined these efforts by introducing legislative proposals and […]

On July 17, 2025, the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) hosted the second in a series of Technologist Roundtables with the goal of convening an open dialogue on complex technical questions that impact law and policy, and assisting global data protection and privacy policymakers in understanding the relevant technical basics of large language models (LLMs). […]

“Algorithmic pricing,” “surveillance pricing,” “dynamic pricing”: in states across the U.S., lawmakers are introducing legislation to regulate a range of practices that use large amounts of data and algorithms to routinely inform decisions about the prices and products offered to consumers. These bills—targeting what this analysis collectively calls “data-driven pricing”—follow the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)’s […]