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Blog 6 | Red Lines under the EU AI Act Series This blog is the sixth of a series that explores prohibited AI practices under the EU AI Act and their interplay with existing EU law. You can find the whole series here. The sixth blog in the “Red lines under the EU AI Act” […]

[…] the bill’s sponsor Rep. West (R) identified in House floor debate, this concluded Oklahoma’s multi-year journey to enacting a comprehensive consumer privacy law.  SB 546 is a Virginia-style law with few deviations from that model, and it will go into effect on January 1, 2027. This resource provides an overview of the law’s scope, […]

By FPF Legal Intern Rafal Fryc As artificial intelligence gets increasingly deployed across every sector of the economy, regulators find themselves grappling with a fundamental challenge: how to govern a technology that defies traditional regulatory frameworks and changes faster than legislation can keep pace. One increasingly common approach can be found outside the text of […]

[…] basis of the untargeted scraping of data, including biometric data such as facial images, has been a continuous area of serious concern for DPAs. From 2022 to 2024, several DPAs imposed large fines on Clearview AI for GDPR violations due to practices related to facial recognition, as highlighted in Section 5 of this blog.  […]

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. […]

[…] proposals to amend the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023 (NDPA) have already emerged through two separate legislative initiatives. The first, SB.650: Nigeria Data Protection Act (Amendment) Bill, 2024, seeks to amend the NDPA by introducing requirements for social media companies to establish physical offices in the country. At present, no other substantive changes to […]

Special thanks to Rafal Fryc, U.S. Legislation Intern, for his research and development of the resources referenced. FPF developed two one-pager resources summarizing key trends in chatbot legislation. The first highlights some of the definitional patterns beginning to appear, identifying eleven legislative frameworks used to define chatbots. The second maps the six most common regulatory […]

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 […]

[…] Act, including under the GDPR. In a case that led to a more than €30 million fine imposed by the Dutch AP on Clearview AI in September 2024 under the GDPR, the company argued that they were acting in the interest of potential third-party users of their facial recognition database, in this case overwhelmed […]