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[…] Kids Online Safety and Privacy Act (KOSPA), Children and Teens Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA 2.0”), and the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act (AADC). With the increased number of enacted and evolving legislation, FPF’s work included a breakdown of bills related to children’s online safety, including the status quo of knowledge standards currently under […]

[…] resource provides an overview of how data is used to inform pricing; contextualizes data-driven pricing in existing U.S. law, enforcement activity, and emerging legislation; and recommends a number of best practices for guiding retail and e-commerce platforms in using data responsibly when it affects pricing. These practical recommendations, developed in consultation with companies working to […]

[…] shopping have given retailers the ability to automatically tailor offers to customers in real-time or near-real-time based on increasing amounts of data about markets and consumers. A number of pricing strategies involving personal data, market data, and advanced machine learning—what this resource refers to collectively as “data-driven pricing”—have recently become common marketing practice. While […]

[…] geographic regions, competitor prices, and other market forces. 1 As such, prices can vary over time and across consumers as conditions c hange. For example, hotel and airline prices fluctuate based on seasonality, rooms or seats available, fuel prices, and expected demand. 2 Ride hailing apps and delivery services, similarly, have “surge pricing” or […]

[…] characteristics such as age, ethnicity, race, sex, or disability status.  3. Verification vs. Identification: what systems are captured by the RBI prohibition? The Guidelines walk through a number of questions that must be examined in order to understand whether a given system falls within the prohibition’s scope:  Does this system qualify as “remote biometric […]

[…] recognition in the workplace and educational institutions, as contained in Article 5(1)(f) AI Act and explored in the Commission’s Guidelines on the topic. This analysis revealed a number of key takeaways: Not all emotion recognition AI systems are prohibited. The AI Act prohibits only the use of emotion recognition AI systems in the workplace […]

[…] or (b) control or process the personal data of at least 25K consumers and derive over 50% of gross revenue from selling personal data. (Section 15.) These numbers are consistent with the thresholds established in other states.  Definitions: The law’s definitions are generally consistent with the Virginia model. For example, this law includes the […]

[…] targets specifically the acts necessary prior to engaging in facial recognition itself, which is tackled separately, under a different provision of the AI Act, Article 5(1)(h). A number of key takeaways emerge from our analysis:  The European Commission Guidelines echo Recital 43 AI Act by acknowledging that the untargeted scraping of facial images is […]

[…] protocols. Similar to California and New York’s laws, many require operators to provide crisis resources, such as suicide hotline referrals, when detecting indicators of self-harm. A growing number also address anthropomorphic or manipulative interactions, including restrictions on emotional deception or features designed to foster dependency, like rewarding prolonged interaction (HI HB 2502, OR SB […]