Posts by The IAF Team
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 Hollywood’s dramatic interpretation of…
Read MoreBermuda Report on Information Accountability
Privacy and data protection laws are filled with concepts that are notoriously difficult to put into tangible effect. Privacy itself is often defined, somewhat amorphously, as “Protection against intrusion” or…
Read MoreDemonstrable Accountability and People Beneficial Data Use
Data driven societies and economies must create a means for data that pertains to people to be used in a productive and protected manner. Those methods include processing so complex that…
Read MoreKnowledge 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 negative impact on individuals. Data, much of it relating to individuals, is…
Read MoreIAF 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 November. State privacy legislation has been reintroduced…
Read MoreDigital 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 Internet. Tuesday, November 12, the New…
Read MoreIAF Releases “Advanced Data Analytic Processing – 2019 Update”
Posted on 11 November 2019 by Martin Abrams • 0 Comments Central to the work of the Information Accountability Foundation is the concept that using data to discover new insights about people raises a different…
Read MoreChristopher 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 today and for their excellent welcome. 10 years ago, on…
Read MoreThe Fair Information Policy Development Vacuum
Over the past decade, policy development in the data protection field has been very robust, with some good and bad results and some results that are a muddle. Yet, with all…
Read MoreHard 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, Albania. The ICDPPC is a conclave of enforcement agencies seeking the means…
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