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IAF Blog
The latest updates and articles from the IAF
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...
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Dec 10, 20204 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....
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Oct 29, 20206 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...
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Sep 22, 20205 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...
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Aug 19, 20203 min read
Data Protection Should Be Proportional to Other Individual Rights
COVID-19 has been a grim reminder of how unfair the world is. People of color and people who are economically challenged have had more...
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Aug 6, 20203 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...
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Apr 13, 20208 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...
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Mar 28, 20204 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
Data Driven Knowledge Creation Needs to be Protected
Our collective desire to have a space where we are free from observation is increasingly under pressure from modern technology, and our...
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Apr 1, 20194 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
Assessments are the Hub of a Forward-Looking Data Protection Program
The term “assessments” appear a great deal in IAF work. We have written about comprehensive data impact assessments, ethical...
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May 25, 20173 min read
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