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The latest updates and articles from the IAF


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...
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Jan 27, 20234 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...
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Mar 24, 20203 min read


Knowledge Discovery Alone Is Not a Similarly Significant Effect
New knowledge drives mankind forward. Sometimes the knowledge is used wisely; sometimes it is not. Sometimes inappropriate uses have...
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Mar 4, 20204 min read


IAF Releases Model Legislation Summary
The California Consumer Privacy Protection Act went into effect on January 1, and a ballot initiative to update that law is slated for...
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Jan 15, 20202 min read


Digital Activities go Beyond Privacy and Data Protection
Sunday, November 10, the New York Times ran a story on the ability of bad persons to hide and distribute child pornography on the...
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Dec 13, 20193 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...
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Oct 31, 201914 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,...
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Sep 24, 20193 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...
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Sep 5, 20195 min read


The Incubation of Trust Based Governance Systems Should Be Encouraged
Increasingly, around the world, there is a shift in the way privacy legislative and regulatory approaches are being developed. This is in...
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Jul 18, 20195 min read


Accountability is As Enforceable as Any Other Privacy Management Mechanism
Accountability has increasingly become the nucleus of effective data protection in a world where the observation of people is critical to...
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Jun 6, 20197 min read


IAF BLOG- Data Ethics Must Translate into Sound Business Process
Many of the world’s privacy, technology, and policy experts are in Brussels this week for the 40th International Conference of Data...
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Oct 22, 20182 min read


The Need for An Ethical Framework
The vast amount of data made possible and accessible through today’s information technologies, and the ever-increasing analytical...
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Sep 24, 20175 min read


Accountability Does Work
143,000,000 people were the victims of a recent data breach when their data was stolen from Equifax, a company that has an obligation to...
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Sep 22, 20172 min read
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