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The IAF Celebrates Ten Years of Focusing on Accountability and Governance

Feb 21, 20232 min read

The IAF Celebrates Ten Years of Focusing on Accountability and Governance

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

Let’s Return Risk to the Risk Based Approach

Martin Abrams

Oct 23, 20223 min read

Let’s Return Risk to the Risk Based Approach

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

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 Right to Data Sharing for Security is a Fundamental Human Right

The IAF Team

Mar 10, 20223 min read

The Right to Data Sharing for Security is a Fundamental Human Right

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

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...

AI and the Road to Expansive Impact Assessments

Peter Cullen

May 19, 20213 min read

AI and the Road to Expansive Impact Assessments

Assessments related to the complex use of data pertaining to people are about to expand significantly requiring new skills by both...

A Trusted Digital Ecosystem Requires Glass Breaking Legislative Change – IAF Summit Recap

Martin Abrams

Apr 20, 20213 min read

A Trusted Digital Ecosystem Requires Glass Breaking Legislative Change – IAF Summit Recap

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

Enforcement: To Be Effective, One Needs to be Selective

Martin Abrams

Apr 6, 20214 min read

Enforcement: To Be Effective, One Needs to be Selective

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

Avoid the Well-Worn Groove to Make Privacy Governance Better

Martin Abrams

Mar 31, 20214 min read

Avoid the Well-Worn Groove to Make Privacy Governance Better

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

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...

The Movement Towards Demonstrable Accountability – Why It Matters

Peter Cullen

Dec 14, 20204 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...

Multilateral Proportionality Requires Definition

Martin Abrams

Oct 28, 20206 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....

Peter Cullen

May 4, 20207 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...

Take the Long View: Demonstrable Accountability

The IAF Team

Apr 12, 20208 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...

Peter Cullen

Mar 27, 20204 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...

Demonstrable Accountability and People Beneficial Data Use

The IAF Team

Mar 23, 20203 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...

Christopher Docksey – Keynote on Accountability At the 41st Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners 24 October 2019 in Tirana, Albania

Guest Author

Oct 30, 201914 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...

Hard Law Must Mesh With Contextual Based Fair Use

The IAF Team

Sep 23, 20193 min read

Hard Law Must Mesh With Contextual Based Fair Use

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

Look to Baseball for an Example of Accountability Oversight

The IAF Team

Sep 8, 20192 min read

Look to Baseball for an Example of Accountability Oversight

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

Trust Deficit Acceleration Means Trust but Verify

The IAF Team

Sep 4, 20195 min read

Trust Deficit Acceleration Means Trust but Verify

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