Posts by The IAF Team

One of the ways to enhance the trustworthiness of accountability processes is for there to be oversight of the accountability process.  Sometimes this oversight concept is difficult to understand or…

Dirty diesel cars, opiates, income disparities, and institutional failures.  The trust deficit caused by these abuses or plain mistakes seems to be accelerating beyond red to bright red.  This acceleration…

Laws to govern the data age are extremely hard to draft.  Policymakers will encounter this  when they revise competition law to deal with data rich conglomerates.  They have already tried…

Accountability has increasingly become the nucleus of effective data protection in a world where the observation of people is critical to how machines and systems work and drives advanced analytics. …

A federal privacy law in the U.S. seems increasingly likely.  When?  It is not yet clear.  However, we can say with much certainty that in the coming months we will…

Our collective desire to have a space where we are free from observation is increasingly under pressure from modern technology, and our confidence that data that pertains to us will…

For the past month, IAF staff has been working to turn the IAF data protection principles released last Summer into legislative language. It has been our observation that “legislative text”…

Last fall, the Information Accountability Foundation (IAF) completed work, commissioned by the Office of the Hong Kong Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data, that explored what Ethical Data Stewardship would consist…

Many consider Canadian privacy law as the pragmatic mid-point between European omnibus rights driven data protection and U.S. sectoral privacy laws balanced against free expression and risk of harm.  The…