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Few areas of privacy and technology policy have attracted as much legislative attention this year as data-driven pricing or “surveillance pricing.” On August 4, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing—“Your Data, Their Profit: The Consumer Cost of AI Surveillance Pricing”—highlighting the intense scrutiny on these practices by policymakers. In 2026 alone, FPF tracked the […]

Documents encoding AI models’ values are alignment’s highest-leverage point—regulating their contents hits the First Amendment.

The new EU Cloud and AI Development Act (CADA) proposal marks a genuine shift in the way the bloc regulates AI, as it codifies the “AI first” principle and it is as much an “AI promotion and enabling”-type of legislation as it is a cloud sovereignty one. The European Commission published the CADA proposal at […]

<p dir="ltr">DHS deploys AI in immigration enforcement largely untested, undisclosed, and unreviewed, a preview of how AI could reshape executive power. </p>

A halt in Grokipedia’s edit pipeline offers a case study in how an AI-generated reference system governs its own content.

Expert working group updates 2023 report to account for the rise of generative AI; will host a webinar on September 28 to present an overview of best practices and risk framework WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Future of Privacy Forum (FPF), with Dayforce, LinkedIn, UKG, Workday, and Beamery – leading HR, payroll, and employment software developers […]

As artificial intelligence chatbots and voice assistants become increasingly integrated into the daily support networks of older adults, baseline consumer protections and transparency measures are essential to ensure these tools foster independence and interpersonal trust rather than introduce new risks. It is encouraging to see Congress recognizing the unique intersections of privacy and data protections, […]

Anthropic destroyed books the law had no reason to tally. OpenAI ran an evaluation no one was required to contain. Source

<p>Denying First Amendment protection to AI outputs sounds like a rule about machines. In practice it could burden human speech online.</p>

<p>The recent decision takes off the table one of the most popular proposals for AI governance: an independent federal agency, free from a president’s whims.</p>

<img class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual" src="https://lawfare-assets-new.azureedge.net/assets/images/default-source/article-images/scaling-laws-logo.jpg?sfvrsn=7a7b38eb_3" /><p>Laura Davis, founder of USLege, joins Kevin Frazier, the AI Innovation and Law Fellow at the University of Texas School of Law and a Senior Editor at Lawfare, to dive into how USLege is leveraging AI to transform the way professionals monitor and respond to government activity.<br /></p><p>USLege’s platform aims to be the answ

The latest edition of the Seriously Risky Business cybersecurity newsletter, now on <em>Lawfare</em>.

A live-blog of the summary judgment hearing over whether the U.S. Department of Defense designated Anthropic a “supply chain risk” to punish it for First Amendment protected speech.

The real lesson of the Hugging Face breach isn’t that AI went rogue—it’s how self-serving hype steers regulators toward the wrong fixes.

The implementation timeline of the EU AI Act has been significantly modified through the recently adopted AI Omnibus, which pushes compliance with the obligations for high-risk AI systems to December 2027 (Annex III) and August 2028 (Annex I), from the initial date of 2 August 2026. Changes of the AI Act include, among others, the […]

A recent AI security incident during a frontier model internal evaluation demonstrates the need for better information sharing requirements.

On July 13, FPF submitted comments in response to the Colorado Department of Justice’s (the Department’s) pre-rulemaking process for the Colorado Automated Decision-making Act (SB 189) and the Chatbot Safety Act (HB 1263). As lawmakers continue to calibrate a proportionate approach to consumer protection from risks of AI-related harms, Colorado’s two new laws each take […]

<img class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual" src="https://lawfare-assets-new.azureedge.net/assets/images/default-source/article-images/scaling-laws-logo.jpg?sfvrsn=7a7b38eb_3" /><p>Assemblymember Alex Bores ran for Congress on a platform that in many ways centered on AI policy. He therefore drew considerable support as well as substantial opposition from interest groups across the country. Though Bores lost in the Democratic primary, his experience is worth exploring in detail.</p><div data-sf-ec-immutab

The latest edition of the Seriously Risky Business cybersecurity newsletter, now on <em>Lawfare</em>.

Future AI risks will be harder to address ad hoc.

<div><p dir="ltr">The Lawfare Institute—publisher of information and insight at the intersection of national security, law and policy—seeks a motivated full-time associate editor focused on artificial intelligence. </p><div><br /></div></div>

Live from the Institute of Law & AI's Workshop on Law-Following AI

AI's costs are landing in real places, and the people absorbing them are writing the rules after the fact, in council chambers and courtrooms. Source

Rapidly growing agetech industry has a significant opportunity to close trust gap, increase product adoption with increased transparency WASHINGTON, D.C. — (July 20, 2026) — The Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) — a global non-profit focused on data protection, AI, and emerging technologies — today released findings from a comprehensive March 2026 survey about how […]

Rapidly growing agetech industry has a significant opportunity to close trust gap, increase product adoption with increased transparency WASHINGTON, D.C. — (July 20, 2026) — The Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) — a global non-profit focused on data protection, AI, and emerging technologies — today released findings from a comprehensive March 2026 survey about how […]

A review of Katrina Manson, “Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare” (Norton, 2026).

<img class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual" src="https://lawfare-assets-new.azureedge.net/assets/images/default-source/article-images/scaling-laws-logo.jpg?sfvrsn=7a7b38eb_3" /><p>Nils Tracy, founder of Authorship, joins Kevin Frazier, the AI Innovation and Law Fellow at the University of Texas School of Law and a Senior Editor at Lawfare, to detail the challenges and solutions to deploying AI in highly sensitive contexts.<br /></p><p>Authorship enables users to map their AI policies to myriad use cases

The latest edition of the Seriously Risky Business cybersecurity newsletter, now on <em>Lawfare</em>.

<p>Discussing technical proposals aimed at preventing AI systems from generating exploitative content.</p>

Before locking in new restrictions on AI models, policymakers should ask how much distillation actually contributes to the threat.

Co-authored by Sarah Hanson, FPF Health & Wellness Intern This article discusses suicidal ideation, which may be distressing for some readers. (If you or someone you know is struggling, help is available. You can call or text the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988 or visit 988 Lifeline for free, confidential, 24/7 support.) As many […]

<p>AI in the near term may drive cybersecurity back to its roots, when widespread vulnerabilities, not deceptive intrusions, drove incidents.</p>

<p>Steve Feldstein argues that the conventional wisdom about AI warfare has it backwards.</p>

<img class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual" src="https://lawfare-assets-new.azureedge.net/assets/images/default-source/article-images/scaling-laws-logo.jpg?sfvrsn=7a7b38eb_3" /><p>Joe Seddon, Founder and CEO of Zero Gravity, joins Kevin Frazier, director of the AI Innovation and Law Program at the University of Texas School of Law and a senior fellow at the Abundance Institute, to discuss AI, social mobility, higher education, and the future of opportunity. Zero Gravity is a UK-based platform that helps

<img class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual" src="https://lawfare-assets-new.azureedge.net/assets/images/default-source/article-images/scaling-laws-logo.jpg?sfvrsn=7a7b38eb_3" /><p>Adi Tantravahi, founder of Cofactor, joins Kevin Frazier, the AI Innovation and Law Fellow at the University of Texas School of Law and a Senior Editor at Lawfare, to talk about how AI can help cut through the administrative red tape that underlies and, in many ways, undermines the modern healthcare system.<br /></p><p>Cofacto

Washington can’t promise allies it will never cut off their access to American AI or reach their data—but it can set, and eventually codify, clear rules for both.

On June 10, 2026, the FPF Center for Artificial Intelligence convened a Frontiers Workshop in Washington, DC. Held as part of FPF’s National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Department of Energy (DoE)-funded Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs) Research Coordination Network, the workshop brought together privacy and frontier AI practitioners to examine challenges at the intersection of data […]

<p>Will AI change how we engage with nuclear weapons?</p>

GAAIA is the best federal frontier AI safety framework yet proposed, but its sweeping preemption of state AI laws makes it net-negative as written.

<img class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual" src="https://lawfare-assets-new.azureedge.net/assets/images/default-source/article-images/scaling-laws-logo.jpg?sfvrsn=7a7b38eb_3" /><p>Andy Masley joins Kevin Frazier, director of the AI Innovation and Law Program at the University of Texas School of Law and a senior editor at Lawfare, and Alan Rozenshtein, research director at Lawfare and associate professor at Minnesota Law, to unpack the increasingly contentious issues related to data centers.<br /></p><p>