The Chatbot Moment: Mapping the Emerging 2026 U.S. Chatbot Legislative Landscape
Special thanks to Rafal Fryc, U.S. Legislation Intern, for his research and development of the resources referenced. If there is one area of AI policy that lawmakers seem particularly eager to regulate in 2026, it’s chatbots. As state legislative sessions ramp up across the country, policymakers at both the state and federal levels have introduced […]
Common Chatbot Provisions — Future of Privacy Forum (5)
Common Chatbot Provisions Febru ary 2 026 Chatbot legislation includes one or mor e core requirements: transparency, age verification & access controls, content safety & harm prevention, professional licensure & regulated services, data protection, and liability & enforcement. Ju stin e G lu ck & Raf al Fr yc This document groups substantive chatbot provisions […]
Digital Digest: FPF’s Annual Privacy Papers for Policymakers
We are pleased to introduce FPF’s 16th annual Privacy Papers for Policymakers. Each year, we invite privacy scholars and authors to submit scholarship for consideration by a committee of reviewers and judges from the FPF Advisory Board. The selected papers are those judged to contain practical analyses of emerging issues that policymakers in Congress, in […]
Red Lines under the EU AI Act: Understanding Manipulative Techniques and the Exploitation of Vulnerabilities
Blog 2 | Red Lines under the EU AI Act Series This blog is the second of a series that explores prohibited AI practices under the EU AI Act and their interplay with existing EU law. You can read the first episode here and find the whole series here. Harmful manipulation and deception through AI systems […]
From Proposal to Passage: Enacted U.S. AI Laws, 2023–2025
Over the past three years, lawmakers across the United States have increasingly enacted AI-related laws that shape the development and deployment of AI systems. Between 2023 and 2025, the Future of Privacy Forum tracked 27 pieces of enacted AI-related legislation across 14 states, along with one federal law (the TAKE IT DOWN Act) that carry […]
FPF Retrospective: U.S. Privacy Enforcement in 2025
The U.S. privacy law landscape continues to mature as new laws go into effect, cure periods expire, and regulators interpret the law through enforcement actions and guidance. State attorneys general and the Federal Trade Commission act as the country’s de facto privacy regulators, regularly bringing enforcement actions under legal authorities both old and new. For […]
FPF 2026 Sponsorship Prospectus
SPONSORSHIP PROSPECTUS 2026 1 FPF SPONSORSHIP PROSPECTUS 2026 The Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) is a global non-profit organization that brings together industry, academics, civil society, policymakers, and other stakeholders to explore the challenges posed by technological innovation and develop privacy protections, ethical norms, and workable business practices. We provide a global platform for senior […]
Five Big Questions (and Zero Predictions) for the U.S. Privacy and AI Landscape in 2026
Introduction For better or worse, the U.S. is heading into 2026 under a familiar backdrop: no comprehensive federal privacy law, plenty of federal rumblings, and state legislators showing no signs of slowing down. What has changed is just how intertwined privacy, youth, and AI policy debates have become, whether the issue is sensitive data, data-driven […]
FPF Anatomy of a State Comprehensive Privacy Law Report
ANATOMY OF A STATE COMPREHENSIVE PRIVACY LAW Charting the Legislative Landscape DECEMBER 2025 The Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) is a non-profit organization that serves as a catalyst for privacy leadership and scholarship, advancing principled data practices in support of emerging technologies. Learn more about FPF by visiting fpf.org. Jordan Francis Senior Policy Counsel, Future […]
FPF – Brussels Privacy Symposium 2025 Report NEW
T he Fu tu re of Priv a cy Fo ru m I n Euro pe, th e Fu tu re of Priv a cy Fo ru m (F P F) is an in d ep end ent vo ic e , main ta in in g ne utr a lit y i n an […]