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

The IAF has submitted its comments on the FTC Advanced Notice of Proposed Rule Making on Surveillance Capitalism and Security (ANPR). ...

The views expressed are Martin Abrams’ and shared by other members of the IAF team.  They do not necessarily reflect the views of the IAF...

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

The effect of the United States Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade is not limited to the right to abortion and bodily autonomy. ...

Due to the recent mass shootings, especially those of shoppers at a Buffalo supermarket and of school children in Uvalde, there is much...

California set in motion a major milestone by creating a data protection authority, the California Privacy Protection Agency (“CPPA”)...

There is little debate that the United States needs a comprehensive privacy law. There also is little debate that the U.S. is no closer...

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

Permissible uses for personal data, a key component of the FAIR and OPEN USE ACT , were invented in the United States 50 years ago.  The...

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

By: Lynn Goldstein & Marty Abrams Are the goals of a comprehensive U.S. privacy bill to cure the ills of surveillance capitalism? ...

The balancing of rights and freedoms is one of the great innovations of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) but one of the...

A generation ago privacy was much simpler.  By “a generation ago,” I mean the beginning of this century.  Yes, the early years of the...

This blog reflects the views of Marty Abrams The style, substance and leadership of data protection agencies make a difference.  Every...

The IAF will hold a policy call October 14 on “What is Risk?” There are different types of privacy risks, and policymakers/regulators and...

Privacy law is less settled today than it was when the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect two...

Schrems II has led to muddling as the latest data protection strategy.  The muddling is over transferring data from Europe to anywhere...

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

Laws to govern the data age are extremely hard to draft.  Policymakers will encounter this  when they revise competition law to deal with...