Commercial AI Use

PRESS RELEASE: Advocates and child development experts urge Google to halt Gemini AI chatbot rollout to young children, request FTC investigation

May 21, 2025

A broad coalition led by Fairplay and EPIC is launching a campaign today to stop Google’s rollout of the Gemini AI companion to young children.
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
- Children's Privacy
- Commercial AI Use
- Data Protection
- Enforcement of Privacy Laws
- Updates
StateScoop: Attorneys general urge Congress to reject ‘irresponsible’ state AI law moratorium

May 19, 2025
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
- Commercial AI Use
- Consumer Privacy
- Privacy Laws
- Proposed U.S. Legislation
- News
Vox: Mark Zuckerberg’s surreal new AI app is the future

May 8, 2025
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
- Commercial AI Use
- Consumer Privacy
- Surveillance Oversight
- News
CalMatters: California regulator weakens AI rules, giving Big Tech more leeway to track you

May 7, 2025
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
- Commercial AI Use
- Communications Privacy
- Consumer Privacy
- Data Brokers
- Data Minimization
- Data Protection
- Enforcement of Privacy Laws
- Online Advertising & Tracking
- Platform Accountability & Governance
- Platform Governance Laws & Regulations
- Privacy Laws
- Proposed U.S. Legislation
- Social Media Privacy
- Surveillance Oversight
- U.S. State Privacy Laws
- News
ABC News Australia: AI job recruitment tools could ‘enable discrimination’ against marginalised groups, research finds

May 7, 2025
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
- Commercial AI Use
- Consumer Privacy
- Screening & Scoring
- News
POLITICO: Big Tech has another California problem

April 25, 2025
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
- Commercial AI Use
- Consumer Privacy
- Data Security
- Privacy Laws
- U.S. State Privacy Laws
The Daily Dot: Aon is one of a growing number of companies using AI to screen job applicants. It’s efficient—but are ‘racist, sexist’ systems baked in?

April 5, 2025
- AI Policy
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
- Commercial AI Use
- Screening & Scoring
Forbes: 390 Million Faces: Clearview AI’s Secret $750,000 Attempt To Buy Your Mugshot

March 22, 2025
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
- Commercial AI Use
- Consumer Privacy
- Data Protection
- News
Scraping for Me, Not for Thee: Large Language Models, Web Data, and Privacy-Problematic Paradigms

February 27, 2025

More than just hypocrisy (though that as well), the supposed reaction to DeepSeek’s model speaks to a troubling AI company argument—one that positions mass web scraping and large-scale data ingestion, sans consent, as a necessity, and an act in which only the companies themselves are entitled to partake.
- AI Policy
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
- Commercial AI Use
- Consumer Privacy
- Cybersecurity
- Data Brokers
- Data Minimization
- Data Security
- Government AI Use
- Platform Accountability & Governance
- Social Media Privacy
- Web Scraping
- Analysis
Paying for Iris Scans: AI-Fueled Surveillance Harms

February 6, 2025

Hype about AI research and development is driving companies to buy people’s data where they otherwise weren’t and, conversely, to sell people’s (including customers’ and users’) data where they otherwise wouldn’t. These practices are harmful already. And their acceleration by the AI craze is poised to rapidly increase data-sharing, -selling, and -monetization threats to privacy in the coming years. This enables the repeat exploitation of people’s data and causes especially pronounced harm to vulnerable people and communities.
- AI Policy
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
- Commercial AI Use
- Data Protection
- Face Surveillance & Biometrics
- Health and Reproductive Privacy
- Surveillance Oversight
- Analysis