Assessing the ADPPA for Improvements that Would Not Impact Basic Design
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Martin Abrams
Jul 11, 20224 min read
The Summer of New Data Protection Redirection
Canada and the United Kingdom are putting forward fair processing ideas that I believe will lead to a new direction in the way data...
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Martin Abrams
May 10, 20222 min read
A Data Protection Bill with an Entirely Different Tone
The Queen’s speech, which was delivered by Prince Charles on May 10th, contained the expected announcement that the UK government intends...
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Lynn Goldstein
May 3, 20224 min read
There are Many Reasons to Worry About Data Transfers, but the Austrian DPA Second Google Analytics Decision Should not be one of Them
Noyb’s posting that the “risk-based approach” to data transfers has been rejected is disingenuous. Moreover, the Austrian Data...
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Martin Abrams
Apr 5, 20224 min read
The Shape Shifting Nature of Privacy Risk Management
For the past decade, the privacy ecosystem, company CPOs, policymakers, regulators, academics, advocates, the courts and others have been...
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Martin Abrams
Dec 6, 20212 min read
A Pivotal Event in Data Protection Law
The recently completed UK Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) Consultation on “ Data: A new direction ” on revising...
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Martin Abrams
Sep 14, 20213 min read
UK Alters the Trajectory for Global Data Protection Objectives
The UK Government’s consultation, “Data: A New Direction” (“Consultation”), reframes the objectives for data protection in a manner not...
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Martin Abrams
Jun 27, 20212 min read
My Head Spins – UK Gets Adequacy As Task Force Says GDPR Must Change
The EU Commission today (June 28, 2021) announced that the UK has been granted adequacy for data flows from Europe to the UK. The UK...
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Martin Abrams
Mar 10, 20212 min read
Schrems II and HR Data
The balancing of rights and freedoms is one of the great innovations of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) but one of the...
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Martin Abrams
Jan 27, 20218 min read
In 2021, the Policy Currents will Blow Hard from Numerous Directions
A generation ago privacy was much simpler. By “a generation ago,” I mean the beginning of this century. Yes, the early years of the...
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Martin Abrams
Dec 10, 20204 min read
There Is Only One Opportunity for Initial Design of the First Data Protection Agency in the United States
This blog reflects the views of Marty Abrams The style, substance and leadership of data protection agencies make a difference. Every...
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Martin Abrams
Sep 21, 20205 min read
Risk Based Should Be More Than A Cliché
The IAF will hold a policy call October 14 on “What is Risk?” There are different types of privacy risks, and policymakers/regulators and...
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Martin Abrams
Sep 8, 20206 min read
Canada is the Right Place to Explore Next Generation Privacy Legislation
Privacy law is less settled today than it was when the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect two...
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Martin Abrams
Aug 18, 20203 min read
Muddling as a Data Protection Strategy
Schrems II has led to muddling as the latest data protection strategy. The muddling is over transferring data from Europe to anywhere...
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The IAF Team
Oct 9, 20195 min read
The Fair Information Policy Development Vacuum
Over the past decade, policy development in the data protection field has been very robust, with some good and bad results and some...
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The IAF Team
Jan 10, 20193 min read
IAF Issues “Trusted Digital Transformation, Considerations for Canadian Public Policy.”
Many consider Canadian privacy law as the pragmatic mid-point between European omnibus rights driven data protection and U.S. sectoral...
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The IAF Team
Oct 11, 20186 min read
Evolving Accountability to Ethical Data Stewardship – A Key Part of Wave Four Privacy Laws
In order to encourage innovation in their regions, digital information strategies are being adopted which recognize that the internet and...
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The IAF Team
Mar 13, 20182 min read
Convergence Versus Divergence in Global Data Flows
Talk of trade wars makes the importance of data driven innovation even more pressing. Trade agreements affect not just tangible assets,...
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Peter Cullen
Jan 18, 20184 min read
Are GDPR Guidelines Becoming So Complex They May Overwhelm Businesses Ability to Meet Them?
Authored by Lynn Goldstein and Peter Cullen Last December the European Union’s Article 29 Data Protection Working Party (Working Party)...
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The IAF Team
Dec 4, 20173 min read
Guidance and Un-Legislated Law
In 2016 and 2017, the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party (WP29) adopted Action Plans which set forth its global implementation...
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