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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 ....
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Feb 21, 20232 min read
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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...
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Oct 24, 20223 min read
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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...
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Jul 12, 20224 min read
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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...
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Mar 10, 20223 min read
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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...
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Jun 3, 20212 min read
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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...
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May 20, 20213 min read
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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...
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Apr 21, 20213 min read
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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...
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Apr 7, 20214 min read
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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...
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Apr 1, 20214 min read
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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...
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Jan 27, 20218 min read
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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,...
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Sep 24, 20193 min read
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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. ...
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Sep 9, 20192 min read
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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...
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Sep 5, 20195 min read
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