Over the past decade, policy development in the data protection field has been very robust, with some good and bad results and some...

The 41st International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners (ICDPPC) will take place in late October in Tirana,...

One of the ways to enhance the trustworthiness of accountability processes is for there to be oversight of the accountability process. ...

Dirty diesel cars, opiates, income disparities, and institutional failures.  The trust deficit caused by these abuses or plain mistakes...

Increasingly, around the world, there is a shift in the way privacy legislative and regulatory approaches are being developed. This is in...

By Murray Griffin June 12 –Businesses must rethink their approach to privacy in the era of big data, and they risk a costly backlash if...

Accountability has increasingly become the nucleus of effective data protection in a world where the observation of people is critical to...

As we see more and more draft privacy law being introduced in Congress and in state legislatures, an increasing number of enforcement...

The FTC held its hearing on its Approach to Consumer Privacy on April 9 and 10 In Washington DC.  At that Hearing, the questions...

For the past month, IAF staff has been working to turn the IAF data protection principles released last Summer into legislative language....

Last fall, the Information Accountability Foundation (IAF) completed work, commissioned by the Office of the Hong Kong Privacy...

Many of the world’s privacy, technology, and policy experts are in Brussels this week for the 40th International Conference of Data...

In order to encourage innovation in their regions, digital information strategies are being adopted which recognize that the internet and...

The United States is in the early stages of creating a privacy framework to govern data for the next generation.  Over the past two weeks...

Privacy legislation again is a hot topic in the United States.  The California Consumer Privacy Act has added to the pressure provided by...

Draft 6 08282018 0800 The time is right to discuss an updated privacy framework for the United States that maintains the ability to think...

“Data should serve people, people should not serve data.” With those words Giovanni Buttarrelli summarized the intersection of privacy...

As long as there has been data, there has been observational data. The whole basis of science is running experiments and recording the...

In 2016 and 2017, the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party (WP29) adopted Action Plans which set forth its global implementation...

The vast amount of data made possible and accessible through today’s information technologies, and the ever-increasing analytical...