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[…] definition where the categorization is ancillary to another commercial service and strictly necessary for objective technical reasons. According to Recital 16 AI Act, an ancillary feature is one that is intrinsically linked to another commercial service and cannot be used independently of that service. The Guidelines provide several examples to illustrate this distinction. For […]

[…] the Chatbot Legislation Tracker Here This tracker highlights chatbot-related legislation advancing through U.S. state legislatures and Congress in 2026. It includes bills that have passed at least one legislative chamber and is updated weekly to reflect movement and amendments. This tracker reflects a subset of FPF’s broader legislative tracking work. FPF members receive access to […]

[…] processing of the biometric data (for example, of the voice or a facial expression) of a natural person allows to directly compare and identify an emotion with one that has been pre-programmed in the emotion recognition system. “Inferring” involves deduction through analytical processes, including machine learning approaches that learn from data how to detect […]

[…] model. For example, this law includes the narrower definition of “sale,” which is limited to exchanges of personal data only for monetary consideration (not other valuable consideration). One divergence from the Virginia-model is that the definition of “biometric data” includes data generated from a physical or digital photograph or a video or audio recording […]

[…] understand, underscoring the need for privacy and security to be central design features, not afterthoughts. The Crisis of Trust: Fraud and AI Scams targeting older adults are one of the top consumer protection concerns, and the rising phenomenon of fraud and financial theft severely undermines trust in AgeTech products. AI’s Dual Role: The roundtable […]

[…] economy, regulators find themselves grappling with a fundamental challenge: how to govern a technology that defies traditional regulatory frameworks and changes faster than legislation can keep pace. One increasingly common approach can be found outside the text of statutes, where state legislatures are pointing developers and deployers toward established voluntary governance frameworks like NIST’s […]

[…] prohibition does not engage with that balancing at all: untargeted scraping is simply prohibited. The two legal instruments thus create overlapping and mutually reinforcing layers of prohibition. One question that remains is whether a database that was created outside of the EU can be used by LEAs in the EU in accordance with the […]

[…] emerging privacy and AI issues and proposes achievable short-term solutions or analytical approaches that could lead to real-world policy outcomes. Seven winning papers, two honorable mentions, and one student submission were selected by a select group of FPF staff members and advisors based on originality, applicability to policymaking, and overall quality of writing. Read […]