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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
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
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
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
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
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
Privacy Law’s First Objective Is That Data Should Serve People – The U.S. Opportunity To Get Privacy Legislation Right
Laws to govern the data age are extremely hard to draft. Policymakers will encounter this when they revise competition law to deal with...
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Jun 17, 20195 min read
IAF BLOG- Data Ethics Must Translate into Sound Business Process
Many of the world’s privacy, technology, and policy experts are in Brussels this week for the 40th International Conference of Data...
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Oct 22, 20182 min read
IAF Releases U.S. Privacy Framework Discussion Document
Draft 6 08282018 0800 The time is right to discuss an updated privacy framework for the United States that maintains the ability to think...
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Aug 28, 20187 min read
Accountability Does Work
143,000,000 people were the victims of a recent data breach when their data was stolen from Equifax, a company that has an obligation to...
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Sep 22, 20172 min read
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