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

It is increasingly understood digital agendas in both the public and private sectors are about creating safe pathways for data to turn...

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

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

Noyb’s posting that the “risk-based approach” to data transfers has been rejected is disingenuous.  Moreover, the Austrian Data...

The UK Government’s consultation, “Data:  A New Direction” (“Consultation”), reframes the objectives for data protection in a manner not...

Do pervasive watching and recording cause risks to individuals and society that justify new legislation specific to this risk?   Digital...

Data protection law is not always about data protection or privacy; sometimes it is just about power.  Last week I was bothered by tweets...

The EU Commission today (June 28, 2021) announced that the UK has been granted adequacy for data flows from Europe to the UK.  The UK...

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

First published in IAPP Daily Dashboard There is “accountability tension” going on which has the potential to stifle technology and data...

The IAF will hold a policy call October 14 on “What is Risk?” There are different types of privacy risks, and policymakers/regulators and...

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...

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...

Data driven societies and economies must create a means for data that pertains to people to be used in a productive and protected...

New knowledge drives mankind forward. Sometimes the knowledge is used wisely; sometimes it is not.  Sometimes inappropriate uses have...

The California Consumer Privacy Protection Act went into effect on January 1, and a ballot initiative to update that law is slated for...

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

The vast amount of data made possible and accessible through today’s information technologies, and the ever-increasing analytical...