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Today, the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) released its Risk Framework for Body-Related Data in Immersive Technologies for organizations to structure the collection, use, and onward transfer of body-related data.  Organizations building immersive technologies like extended reality and virtual worlds often rely on large amounts of data about individuals’ bodies and behaviors. While body-related […]

[…] the year that the public first experiences widespread enforcement of their new privacy rights? One structural reason for a lack of visible enforcement actions may be that Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, and until recently, California all provide the ability for businesses to ‘cure’ many or all alleged violations of their privacy laws before a formal […]

[…] since become an evolving, publicly available search engine of more than 1.4 million privacy policies.   PrivaSeer is designed to make privacy policies transparent, discoverable, and searchable, for use by researchers in the privacy field as well as privacy practitioners in the marketplace. PrivaSeer supports searches of a corpus of privacy policies collected from the […]

Since July 2023, eight U.S. states (California, Kansas, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wisconsin) and the White House have published executive orders (EOs) to support the responsible and ethical use of artificial intelligence (AI) systems, including generative AI. In response to the evolving AI landscape, these directives signal a growing recognition of […]

[…] risks of processing their personal data for children and their best interests via thorough assessments.  10. Ensure the accuracy of the personal data of children held.  11. Use and retain personal data of children considering their best interests. 12. Adopt policies regarding how children’s data may be safely shared.   13. Give children options in […]

[…] consent practices in the U.S., noting that, at least in the U.S., age assurance and parental consent “are really two different things.” When it comes to children’s use of online services under federal law, there is no requirement to verify the age of users. Rather, the U.S. requirement is to obtain consent from someone […]

[…] Biden-Harris AI plan is incredibly comprehensive, with a whole of government approach and with an impact beyond government agencies. Although the executive order focuses on the government’s use of AI, the influence on the private sector will be profound due to the extensive requirements for government vendors, worker surveillance, education and housing priorities, the […]

On October 16, 2023, the Future of Privacy Forum submitted comments to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) on the use of artificial intelligence in campaign ads. The FEC is seeking comments in response to a petition that asked the Agency to initiate a rulemaking to clarify that its regulation on “fraudulent misrepresentation” applies to […]