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My Head Spins – UK Gets Adequacy As Task Force Says GDPR Must Change
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...
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Jun 28, 20212 min read
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50 Year Heritage of the FAIR and OPEN USE ACT
Permissible uses for personal data, a key component of the FAIR and OPEN USE ACT , were invented in the United States 50 years ago. The...
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Jun 24, 20213 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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Lesson from the North: The Expectations for Federal Privacy Legislation Will Overwhelm the Process
By: Lynn Goldstein & Marty Abrams Are the goals of a comprehensive U.S. privacy bill to cure the ills of surveillance capitalism? ...
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Mar 30, 20213 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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Dynamic Data Security Should Be the Policy Default: Dynamic Data Obscurity Revisited
The IAF used the phrase “Dynamic Data Obscurity” in 2015 when I organized a Washington dialog and a Brussels session. With Schrems II...
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Jan 11, 20213 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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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
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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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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
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Canada is the Right Place to Explore Next Generation Privacy Legislation
Privacy law is less settled today than it was when the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect two...
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Sep 9, 20206 min read
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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
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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
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Privacy Law Must Focus on Consequential Harm
There is general agreement that privacy analysis and enforcement should be more risk based. The IAF increasingly is looking at risk in...
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Jun 2, 20205 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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