FPF COPPA 2.0 Redline
On February 14, 2024, Senator Markey released an updated draft of the Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA 2.0) while also sharing that Senate Commerce Leadership now endorses it. On April 9, 2024, Reps Castor and Walberg introduced the COPPA 2.0 companion bill in the House. COPPA 2.0 would amend the Children’s Online […]
Youth Privacy in Immersive Technologies Issue Brief
Analyze recent regulatory and self-regulatory actions and guidance related to youth privacy, safety, and advertising in immersive spaces, pulling out key lessons for organizations building experiences in virtual worlds in FPF’s issue brief. Learn more on the FPF Blog.
Overview of Contested Youth Privacy & Safety Provisions in Pending State Law Litigation
Since September 2022, eight U.S. states have enacted laws intended to address online youth privacy and safety. Six of these laws are currently subject to litigation, often on First Amendment grounds. In some cases, preliminary injunctions have already halted the laws from going into effect. These initial district court rulings provide a first look at […]
FPF Health & Wellness: Mapping the 2024 Health Privacy Landscape, A 2023 Retrospective
In 2023, health data privacy developments were nearly all related to the continuing development of privacy law responses to the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision and subsequent moves by states to bar access to certain reproductive health care services and to criminally prosecute individuals seeking access to that care. As reproductive health care remains in jeopardy […]
Immersive Tech Panel Series Insights
In 2023, FPF organized and hosted a virtual panel series asking: what is unique or new about immersive technologies? We discussed the intersection of these emerging technologies with key aspects of technology and privacy such as health and wellness, advertising, vehicles, education, AI, and youth privacy with subject matter experts in a series of panels. […]
Generative AI for Organizational Use: Internal Policy Checklist
FPF’s Generative AI for Organizational Use: Internal Policy checklist helps decision-makers revisit their internal policies and procedures. The Checklist provides guidance in four areas:
FPF Policy Brief: Comparative Analysis of California and U.K. Age-Appropriate Design Codes
The Future of Privacy Forum’s policy brief provides a comparison of the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act (AADC), a first-of-its-kind privacy-by-design law in the United States, and the United Kingdom’s Age-Appropriate Design Code. While there are distinctions between the two codes, the California AADC, which is set to become enforceable on July 1, 2024, was […]
FPF Analysis of California’s New Age-Appropriate Design Code
As federal and state policymakers heighten their focus on protecting children’s privacy online, read the Future of Privacy Forum’s policy brief, An Analysis of the California Age-Appropriate Design Code. The report outlines and analyzes Assembly Bill 2273, the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act (AADC), a first-of-its-kind privacy-by-design law that represents a significant change in both […]
Policy Brief: Location Data Under Existing Privacy Laws
The Future of Privacy Forum released a policy brief, Location Data Under Existing Privacy Laws. Defining and regulating location data in a privacy law can be an elusive challenge. In part, this is due to its ubiquity in our lives: information about how devices and people move through spaces over time is utilized by Wi-Fi networks, smartphones, […]
A Practical Path Toward Genetic Privacy in the United States Report
The Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) and Privacy Analytics partnered to publish “A Practical Path Toward Genetic Privacy in the United States.” The white paper is intended to highlight the personal nature of genetic data, describe existing regulatory requirements, and discuss emerging developments regarding the de-identification & re-identification of genetic data while highlighting consensus practices […]