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The latest updates and articles from the IAF
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
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
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
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
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
Barb Lawler Joins IAF as COO
The Information Accountability Foundation ( IAF ) is pleased to announce that it is adding to its leadership. Barb Lawler is joining the...
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Mar 22, 20212 min read
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 “Advanced Data Analytic Processing – 2019 Update”
Central to the work of the Information Accountability Foundation is the concept that using data to discover new insights about people...
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Nov 11, 20191 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
Look to Baseball for an Example of Accountability Oversight
One of the ways to enhance the trustworthiness of accountability processes is for there to be oversight of the accountability process. ...
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Sep 9, 20192 min read
The Glacial Movement of Privacy and the Implications to Accountability
As we see more and more draft privacy law being introduced in Congress and in state legislatures, an increasing number of enforcement...
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Apr 25, 20194 min read
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