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The European Commission published its second Report on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on July 25, 2024, assessing the progress of its impact and effectiveness of application since the Commission’s first Report published in June 2020. The second Report acknowledges relative success of the GDPR in protecting individuals and supporting businesses, while also […]

[…] text-to-video generation model (Veo); and a new iteration on their text-to-image generation model (Imagen 3). Google engineers have also announced several open models (Gemma 2B and 7B; CodeGemma; and PaliGemma). The privacy tradeoff of model size is this: the smaller the model, the easier it is to operate locally. Large models are more efficiently […]

[…] process that screens, evaluates, categorizes, recommends, or otherwise makes a decision or facilitates human decisionmaking that impacts applicants or employees.  California Privacy Protection Act Draft Regulations (March 2024) Any technology that processes personal information and uses computation to execute a decision, replace human decision-making, or substantially facilitate human decisionmaking. Government Code § 11546.45.51 “High-risk […]

Co-authored by Nick Alereza, FPF Policy Intern and student Boston University School of Law. With contributions from Jordan Francis. On July 30, 2024, the U.S. Senate passed the Kids Online Safety and Privacy Act (KOSPA) by a vote of 91-3. KOSPA is a legislative package that includes two bills that gained significant traction in […]

[…] Assembly as AB 2273 in February 2022, passed the legislature, and was signed by Governor Newsom in September 2022. The law’s intended enforcement date was July 1, 2024.  NetChoice, a trade association, filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court on December 14, 2022, alleging that the California AADC is unconstitutional, opening NetChoice v. […]

[…] Council of Europe’s (CoE) Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights, Democracy, and the Rule of Law (Framework Convention on AI) was adopted on 17 May 2024, after two years of drafting and negotiation. This is the world’s first binding treaty on AI, focusing on protecting human rights, democracy and the rule of […]

You are invited to attend the inaugural FPF Privacy Executives Summit taking place in Berkeley, California on September 11-12, 2024 at the Claremont Hotel & Spa. For those traveling, the Claremont Hotel is a 24-minute drive from Oakland International Airport and 45-minutes from San Francisco International Airport. This year FPF expanded the Privacy Executives […]

On June 13, 2024, Governor Phil Scott vetoed H. 121. This marked the first governor veto of a comprehensive privacy bill passed by the state legislature. Immediately prior to the close of the state legislative session on May 10, 2024, the Vermont legislature passed H. 121, “An act relating to enhancing consumer privacy and […]

[…] will soon have increased privacy protections due to recent advances in youth privacy legislation. Virginia and Colorado both have broad-based privacy laws already in effect. During the 2024 state legislative sessions, both states amended those laws to add specific online privacy protections for kids’ data. In Virginia, HB 707/SB 361 passed the state legislature. […]