Resources

The Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) launched a new report—Anatomy of State Comprehensive Privacy Law: Surveying the State Privacy Law Landscape and Recent Legislative Trends. By distilling this broad landscape to identify the “anatomy” of state comprehensive privacy law, this report highlights the strong commonalities and the nuanced differences between the various laws, showing how […]

Increasingly, organizations that handle personal data need privacy and cybersecurity teams to collaborate. Collaborative projects often involve shared questions regarding technologies, business practices, and legal compliance.  FPF’s Expert Group on Privacy and Cybersecurity has launched a new project to better understand these trends. As an initial step, we surveyed privacy and cybersecurity experts across organizations […]

As the D.C. Council considers the important issue of safeguarding health data, FPF writes with feedback on the role of consent in the Consumer Health Information Privacy Protection Act of 2024 (“CHIPPA”). We commend the D.C. Council’s efforts to advance individual health data privacy rights and protections. CHIPPA is closely modeled on Washington State’s My […]

The Multistate AI Policymaker Working Group (MAP-WG) is a bipartisan assembly of over 200 state lawmakers from more than 45 states, brought together by the Future of Privacy Forum. The Group’s primary aim is to foster a shared understanding of emerging technologies and related policy issues. FPF convenes and provides an administrative platform for the […]

The Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) submitted comments in response to the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC, or Commission) Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to generate content for political advertisements.

FPF is pleased to submit comments to the California Civil Rights Council regarding their Proposed Modifications to the Employment Regulations Regarding Automated-Decision Systems. By modernizing the state’s current employment regulations, the California Civil Rights Council has an important opportunity to influence how existing civil rights laws will apply to emerging technologies like AI. Ideally, these […]

A significant new chapter for data privacy protections in the United States has commenced as more than a dozen recently enacted significant state privacy laws are scheduled to take effect by October 1, 2024. To assist stakeholders in tracking the emerging state privacy landscape, the Future of Privacy Forum has prepared a resource listing key […]

Recent years have seen an increasing deployment of onboard video-based safety systems in vehicles. While video technologies have been seen already in passenger vehicles, these systems have been even more prominent in the commercial fleet industry (e.g., trucking, delivery, and rental vehicles). Fleet operators have substantial regulatory, financial, and other incentives to implement safety programs, […]

FPF submitted comments in response to the United States Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Request for Information on Opportunities and Challenges of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Transportation. In DOT’s work to examine the potential for AI, FPF urges DOT to:

Enforcement activity intensifies as U.S. consumer privacy laws continue to evolve and come into effect. In 2023 and 2024 alone, there have been dozens of enforcement actions at the U.S. federal and state levels, some of which reveal or touch on significant throughlines for privacy policy issues, such as what constitutes a privacy violation or […]