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Jan 27, 20234 min read

Who Is Paying the Policy Debt?

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

Time for an Unfairness Rule on Fair Information Processing

Martin Abrams

Nov 16, 20222 min read

Time for an Unfairness Rule on Fair Information Processing

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

Assessing the ADPPA for Improvements that Would Not Impact Basic Design

Martin Abrams

Aug 14, 20224 min read

Assessing the ADPPA for Improvements that Would Not Impact Basic Design

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...

The Summer of New Data Protection Redirection

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...

The Overturning of Roe v. Wade Undermines the Right to Privacy

Lynn Goldstein

Jun 26, 20225 min read

The Overturning of Roe v. Wade Undermines the Right to Privacy

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. ...

The Right to Privacy is as Important as the Right to Use Guns

Lynn Goldstein

Jun 5, 20223 min read

The Right to Privacy is as Important as the Right to Use Guns

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

IAF Testifies on Pre-Rulemaking for California Privacy Rights Act

Barb Lawler

May 9, 20222 min read

IAF Testifies on Pre-Rulemaking for California Privacy Rights Act

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

Enacting Privacy Legislation Requires Defining Desired Obtainable Outcomes

Martin Abrams

Jan 18, 20224 min read

Enacting Privacy Legislation Requires Defining Desired Obtainable Outcomes

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...

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...

50 Year Heritage of the FAIR and OPEN USE ACT

Martin Abrams

Jun 23, 20213 min read

50 Year Heritage of the FAIR and OPEN USE ACT

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...

Time To Break the Privacy Legislative Paradigm – IAF Model Legislation

Martin Abrams

Jun 2, 20212 min read

Time To Break the Privacy Legislative Paradigm – IAF Model Legislation

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

Lesson from the North: The Expectations for Federal Privacy Legislation Will Overwhelm the Process

Lynn Goldstein

Mar 30, 20213 min read

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? ...

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...

In 2021, the Policy Currents will Blow Hard from Numerous Directions

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...

There Is Only One Opportunity for Initial Design of the First Data Protection Agency in the United States

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...

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...

Canada is the Right Place to Explore Next Generation Privacy Legislation

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...

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...

The Fair Information Policy Development Vacuum

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...

Privacy Law’s First Objective Is That Data Should Serve People – The U.S. Opportunity To Get Privacy Legislation Right

The IAF Team

Jun 16, 20195 min read

Privacy Law’s First Objective Is That Data Should Serve People – The U.S. Opportunity To Get Privacy Legislation Right

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