The AI Regulatory Landscape in the U.S.
The ai Regulatory landscape in the u.s. February 11, 2025 @ 1:00 – 3:00 PM EST FPF is pleased to offer our key AI governance training, The AI Regulatory Landscape in the U.S. As AI increasingly captures public attention and experts voice optimism for its potential benefits and concerns about its potential negative impacts, the U.S. […]
U.S. Privacy Landscape
U.S. Privacy Landscape JANUARY 28, 2025 @ 12:00 – 2:00 PM EST Why Understanding U.S. Privacy Laws is Essential in 2025. Commercial privacy in the United States is regulated through a maze of state and federal laws and regulations. There are sector-specific privacy laws at the state and federal levels, active federal enforcement bodies with […]
FPF Launches New Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Repository
For some time now, stakeholders at the intersection of data, privacy, and new technologies have increasingly recognized the potential of a range of technical and computational approaches and techniques to mitigate privacy risks. This set of tools and methods are otherwise known as privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) and are understood as a group of techniques that […]
Challenges and Opportunities in Organizational Collaboration on Privacy and Cybersecurity
Increasingly, organizations that handle personal data need privacy and cybersecurity teams to collaborate. Collaborative projects often involve shared questions regarding technologies, business practices, and legal compliance. FPF’s Expert Group on Privacy and Cybersecurity has launched a new project to better understand these trends. As an initial step, we surveyed privacy and cybersecurity experts across organizations […]
FPF Unveils Report on the Anatomy of State Comprehensive Privacy Law
Today, the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) launched a new report—Anatomy of State Comprehensive Privacy Law: Surveying the State Privacy Law Landscape and Recent Legislative Trends. By distilling this broad landscape to identify the “anatomy” of state comprehensive privacy law, this report highlights the strong commonalities and the nuanced differences between the various laws, showing […]
The African Union’s Continental AI Strategy: Data Protection and Governance Laws Set to Play a Key Role in AI Regulation
By Chuma Akana, Former FPF Global Privacy Summer Fellow and Mercy King’ori, FPF Policy Analyst, Global Privacy The African Union (AU) Executive Council, composed of representatives of the 55 African Member States, approved the highly anticipated AU AI Continental Strategy (the Strategy) in July 2024. The adoption of the Strategy follows a period of stakeholder […]
U.S. Legislative Trends in AI-Generated Content: 2024 and Beyond
Standing in front of the U.S. flag and dressed as Uncle Sam, Taylor Swift proudly proclaims that you should vote for Joe Biden for President. She then wants you to vote for Donald Trump in a nearly identical image circulated by former President Trump himself. Both the images, and the purported sentiments, are fabricated, the […]
Privacy Enhancing Technology in Education: The State of Play
The Future of Privacy Forum, in partnership with AEM Corporation, is pleased to invite you to our webinar surrounding privacy enhancing technologies (PETs) in education. In this webinar, we take a deeper look at the state of PETs within and across education agencies and institutions. We will: Join us in exploring these evolving technologies and […]
FPF Submits Comments to the D.C. Council Committee on Health on the Consumer Health Information Privacy Protection Act of 2024 & the Role of Consent
As the D.C. Council considers the important issue of safeguarding health data, FPF writes with feedback on the role of consent in the Consumer Health Information Privacy Protection Act of 2024 (“CHIPPA”). We commend the D.C. Council’s efforts to advance individual health data privacy rights and protections. CHIPPA is closely modeled on Washington State’s My […]
Do LLMs Contain Personal Information? California AB 1008 Highlights Evolving, Complex Techno-Legal Debate
By Jordan Francis, Beth Do, and Stacey Gray, with thanks to Dr. Rob van Eijk and Dr. Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna for their contributions. California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill (AB) 1008 into law on September 28, amending the definition of “personal information” under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) to provide that personal information can […]