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[…] Risk Management Framework or ISO 42001. This shift toward incorporating non-binding technical standards into legal requirements represents more than just regulatory convenience – it is creating a new legal regime in which voluntary industry guidelines are influencing everything from negligence determinations and punitive damage calculations to affirmative defenses for regulatory actions. Understanding how these […]

[…] that fall outside the scope of the AI Act’s prohibition finds that some use-cases, such as the scraping of facial images for training AI models that generate new images about fictitious persons, may lead to increasingly complex compliance scenarios triggering both copyright and data protection rules.  Following this brief introduction, Section 2 outlines the […]

FPF recently concluded its 16th Annual Privacy Papers for Policymakers (PPPM) events, hosting two dynamic virtual ceremonies on March 4 and March 11, 2026. This year’s program centered on the most pressing areas in privacy and AI governance, bringing together global awardees to discuss their research with leading discussants from industry, academia, and civil society. […]

[…] as social media companies.  A brief look at the history of social media regulation in Nigeria shows that it is intricately connected with state regulation of the freedom of expression. While past attempts to regulate the use of social media platforms have largely been led by ad-hoc bans on the basis of national security […]

[…] within the scope of different state laws and where compliance obligations, like disclosures or safety protocols, could vary broadly across jurisdictions. As states including Oregon and Washington prepare to imminently enact new chatbot legislation, it remains to be seen how closely 2026 frameworks will ultimately align. To help make sense of this rapidly evolving landscape, FPF developed two […]

[…] different state laws and where compliance obligations, like disclosures or safety protocols, could vary broadly across jurisdictions. As states including Oregon and Washington prepare to imminently enact new chatbot legislation, it remains to be seen how closely 2026 frameworks will ultimately align. To help make sense of this rapidly evolving landscape, FPF developed two […]

[…] verifiable facts linked to a criminal activity, as explored above;  Administrative offense prediction, on the basis that their prosecution is less intrusive for individuals’ fundamental rights and freedoms; and  Risk assessments of legal entities (unless targeting specific individuals).  While the Guidelines do not expressly address the issue, it is worth noting that, while certain […]

[…] the personal data collected in one context is used to generate social scores in an unrelated context, such a practice may violate this principle, particularly where the new use of data was not foreseeable to the individual or where the new processing lacks a sufficient legal basis of connection to the original purpose.  The […]