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The latest updates and articles from the IAF
Lesson from the North: The Expectations for Federal Privacy Legislation Will Overwhelm the Process
By: Lynn Goldstein & Marty Abrams Are the goals of a comprehensive U.S. privacy bill to cure the ills of surveillance capitalism? ...
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Mar 30, 20213 min read
Barb Lawler Joins IAF as COO
The Information Accountability Foundation ( IAF ) is pleased to announce that it is adding to its leadership. Barb Lawler is joining the...
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Mar 22, 20212 min read
Dynamic Data Security Should Be the Policy Default: Dynamic Data Obscurity Revisited
The IAF used the phrase “Dynamic Data Obscurity” in 2015 when I organized a Washington dialog and a Brussels session. With Schrems II...
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Jan 11, 20213 min read
The Movement Towards Demonstrable Accountability – Why It Matters
First published in IAPP Daily Dashboard There is “accountability tension” going on which has the potential to stifle technology and data...
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Dec 14, 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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Dec 10, 20204 min read
Multilateral Proportionality Requires Definition
The stresses of 2020 have challenged the data protection community’s understanding of data protection and how to apply its practices....
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Oct 29, 20206 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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Sep 22, 20205 min read
Data Protection Should Be Proportional to Other Individual Rights
COVID-19 has been a grim reminder of how unfair the world is. People of color and people who are economically challenged have had more...
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Aug 6, 20203 min read
Privacy Challenges of Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises
The IAF has focused on accountability that achieves fair processing when information is used for innovative purposes. This focus means...
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Jul 22, 20201 min read
Privacy Law Must Focus on Consequential Harm
There is general agreement that privacy analysis and enforcement should be more risk based. The IAF increasingly is looking at risk in...
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Jun 2, 20205 min read
Transparency Needs a Makeover
It seems ironic to be using the term “makeover” in the midst of the global pandemic as many of us are in need of a haircut and as my wife...
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May 5, 20207 min read
Take the Long View: Demonstrable Accountability
Every year at this time the Ten Commandments is aired on network TV and every year many of us end up watching at least part of...
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Apr 13, 20208 min read
Bermuda Report on Information Accountability
Privacy and data protection laws are filled with concepts that are notoriously difficult to put into tangible effect. Privacy itself is...
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Mar 31, 20202 min read
A Pivot (Back) to Accountability
In a recent article , Sheila Colclasure, Senior Vice President and Global Public Policy Officer at LiveRamp, wrote: “If you want your...
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Mar 28, 20204 min read
Demonstrable Accountability and People Beneficial Data Use
Data driven societies and economies must create a means for data that pertains to people to be used in a productive and protected...
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Mar 24, 20203 min read
Knowledge Discovery Alone Is Not a Similarly Significant Effect
New knowledge drives mankind forward. Sometimes the knowledge is used wisely; sometimes it is not. Sometimes inappropriate uses have...
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Mar 4, 20204 min read
IAF Releases Model Legislation Summary
The California Consumer Privacy Protection Act went into effect on January 1, and a ballot initiative to update that law is slated for...
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Jan 15, 20202 min read
Digital Activities go Beyond Privacy and Data Protection
Sunday, November 10, the New York Times ran a story on the ability of bad persons to hide and distribute child pornography on the...
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Dec 13, 20193 min read
IAF Releases “Advanced Data Analytic Processing – 2019 Update”
Central to the work of the Information Accountability Foundation is the concept that using data to discover new insights about people...
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Nov 11, 20191 min read
Christopher Docksey – Keynote on Accountability At the 41st Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners 24 October 2019 in Tirana, Albania
Good morning. I would like to thank the International Conference and Commissioner Besnik Dervishi and his staff for inviting me here...
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Oct 31, 201914 min read
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