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On May 19, 2024, the Minnesota Legislature passed HF 4757, an omnibus budget bill that includes the Minnesota Consumer Data Privacy Act (MNCDPA). The bill now heads to Governor Walz for signature. Developed by State Representative Steve Elkins over nearly five years and multiple legislative sessions, the MNCDPA is among the strongest iterations of […]

[…] Brief analyzing the regulatory strategies and priorities of data protection authorities (DPAs) in Latin America. Titled Regulatory Strategies and Priorities of Data Protection Authorities in Latin America: 2024 and Beyond, the Issue Brief outlines an overview of the various strategies, activity reports, and other announcements made by the DPAs of various Latin American countries […]

‘Don’t call me kid, don’t call me baby’ – unless you are a child residing in either Colorado or Virginia, where children 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 […]

[…] of animated characters or child-oriented activities and incentives; music or other audio content; age of models, presence of child celebrities, or celebrities who appeal to children; advertising promoting the site or service, advertising appearing on the site or service, reliable empirical evidence of the site or service’s audience composition; reliable evidence of the audience […]

On April 6, the Maryland legislature passed HB 603/SB 571, the “Maryland Age-Appropriate Design Code Act” (Maryland AADC), which is currently awaiting action from Governor Moore. While FPF has already written about Maryland’s potentially “paradigm-shifting” state comprehensive privacy law, the Maryland AADC may similarly pioneer a new model for other states. The Maryland AADC […]

SafeInsights brings together digital learning platforms, institutions, and a world-class team to enable research studies to inform teaching and learning. May 1, 2024 ― The Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) has received a subaward on the newly announced National Science Foundation (NSF) SafeInsights project, a five-year, $90 million research and development (R&D) infrastructure grant […]

[…] personal data, waste their time, and cause frustration. Tapjoy must not make misrepresentations about consumer rewards. FTC v. Age of Learning (2020) Allegedly touted easy cancellation in promotional material, made it difficult to cancel subscriptions by providing circular forms, and auto-renewed subscriptions at the most expensive level without consumer notice or consent.  Age of […]

[…] on vendors to be proactively transparent with schools about their use of AI. Check out the LinkedIn Live with CEO Jules Polonetsky and Youth & Education Director David Sallay about the Checklist and Policy Brief. To read more of the Future of Privacy Forum’s youth and student privacy resources, visit www.StudentPrivacyCompass.org.  li live promo LI-Live-Promo

[…] Remedies Provided by Law Are Not Foreclosed Violations of MODPA are tied to the Maryland Consumer Protection Act, and the Act specifically denies private enforcement under Md. Code Com. Law § 13-408, leaving enforcement solely with the Division of Consumer Protection of the Office of the Attorney General. However, the Act specifies that “his […]

[…] Chinese regulators, several foreign generative AI service providers have limited access to their services from users in the PRC, such as by requiring foreign phone numbers for registration or requiring international credit cards during subscription. In practice, however, users have been able to access the services of these foreign generative AI service providers by […]