The IAF celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2023, and recently published our annual report –  2022 Highlights and 2023 Policy Directions ....

It is increasingly understood digital agendas in both the public and private sectors are about creating safe pathways for data to turn...

Everyone! There is a technology concept called the “tech debt.”  It accumulates over time when software development applies the easy and...

Data is necessary for information, and information is necessary for knowledge.  Knowledge can be used to advance as well as hinder...

Professor Lokke Moerel is right.  The European data protection commissioners have done their best to use cases, guidance, and opinions to...

I was well into writing a blog related to the Federal Trade Commission’s advanced notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPR) on “Commercial...

By Scott Taylor  IAF Board Chair  I am pleased to announce that Barb Lawler has been elected President of the Information Accountability...

Canada and the United Kingdom are putting forward fair processing ideas that I believe will lead to a new direction in the way data...

For the past decade, the privacy ecosystem, company CPOs, policymakers, regulators, academics, advocates, the courts and others have been...

Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine reinforces the fact we live in a very complicated and dangerous world.  This attack on an...

Today is International Women’s Day, and we want to recognize the women who make the IAF strong, with a special focus on a long-standing...

There is growing evidence that data forward processes will require governance that considers impacts not just to privacy and cyber...

The recently completed UK Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) Consultation on “ Data: A new direction ”  on revising...

Do pervasive watching and recording cause risks to individuals and society that justify new legislation specific to this risk?   Digital...

Data protection law is not always about data protection or privacy; sometimes it is just about power.  Last week I was bothered by tweets...

Using AI to enable the creation of  better insights and for better predictive capabilities a is a clear objective of the European...

Federal privacy legislation in the United States is stuck.  There are many reasons for this, but the fact is that the old privacy...

The observational age that drives change in all avenues of human life requires data governance marked by an orderly transition to...

Richard Thomas, when he was Information Commissioner of the United Kingdom, said: “To be effective as a regulator, one needs to be...

Writing privacy legislation that is fit for its intended purpose is not easy.  Just using the term “privacy legislation” can be...