For the past decade, the privacy ecosystem, company CPOs, policymakers, regulators, academics, advocates, the courts and others have been...

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...

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...

Federal privacy legislation in the United States is stuck.  There are many reasons for this, but the fact is that the old privacy...

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

There is general agreement that privacy analysis and enforcement should be more risk based.  The IAF increasingly is looking at risk in...

The United States is in the early stages of creating a privacy framework to govern data for the next generation.  Over the past two weeks...

Draft 6 08282018 0800 The time is right to discuss an updated privacy framework for the United States that maintains the ability to think...