Concepts in AI Governance: Personality vs. Personalization
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 […]
AI Regulation in Latin America: Overview and Emerging Trends in Key Proposals
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 […]
Highlights from FPF’s July 2025 Technologist Roundtable: AI Unlearning and Technical Guardrails
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). […]
The “Neural Data” Goldilocks Problem: Defining “Neural Data” in U.S. State Privacy Laws
As of halfway through 2025, four U.S. states have enacted laws regarding “neural data” or “neurotechnology data.” These laws, all of which amend existing state privacy laws, signify growing lawmaker interest in regulating what’s being considered a distinct, particularly sensitive kind of data: information about people’s thoughts, feelings, and mental activity. Created in response to […]
Data-Driven Pricing: Key Technologies, Business Practices, and Policy Implications
Data-driven pricing: A set of practices that use personal and/or non-personal data to routinely inform decisions about the prices and products offered to consumers, often for the purpose of price personalization. State lawmakers in the U.S. are seeking to regulate various pricing strategies that fall under the umbrella of data-driven pricing, following the release in […]
Minding Mindful Machines: AI Agents and Data Protection Considerations
We are now in 2025, the year of AI agents. Leading large language model (LLM) developers (including OpenAI, Google, Anthropic) have released early versions of technologies described as “AI agents.” Unlike earlier automated systems and even LLMs, these systems go beyond previous technology by having autonomy over how to achieve complex, multi-step tasks, such as […]
Potential Harms And Mitigation Practices for Automated Decision-making and Generative AI
FPF has updated our 2017 resource (“Distilling the Harms of Automated Decision-making”) with the goal of identifying and categorizing a broad range of potential harms that may result from automated decision-making, including heightened harms related to generative AI (GenAI), and potential mitigation practices. FPF reviewed leading books, articles, and other literature on the topic of […]
Chatbots in Check: Utah’s Latest AI Legislation
With the close of Utah’s short legislative session, the Beehive State is once again an early mover in U.S. tech policy. In March, Governor Cox signed several bills related to the governance of generative Artificial Intelligence systems into law. Among them, SB 332 and SB 226 amend Utah’s 2024 Artificial Intelligence Policy Act (AIPA) while HB 452 establishes new regulations for […]
Comments from Future of Privacy Forum on the Development of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Plan
On March 14, the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF), submitted comments in response to the Request for Information on the Development of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Plan published in the Federal Register on February 6, 2025. FPF is a non-profit organization that serves as a catalyst for privacy leadership and scholarship, advancing principled data […]
FPF Releases Infographic Highlighting the Spectrum of AI in Education
To highlight the wide range of current use cases for Artificial Intelligence (AI) in education and future possibilities and constraints, the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) today released a new infographic, Artificial Intelligence in Education: Key Concepts and Uses. While generative AI tools that can write essays, generate and alter images, and engage with students […]
