Posts by The IAF Team

Privacy law began  in the United States when Congress enacted the Federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”) in 1970.  While framed as a consumer protection law, it was most certainly fair…

Many of the world’s privacy, technology, and policy experts are in Brussels this week for the 40th International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners.  The conference theme this year…

In order to encourage innovation in their regions, digital information strategies are being adopted which recognize that the internet and digital technologies are transforming the world. These strategies address the…

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 the IAF has issued blogs…

Draft 6 08282018 0800 The time is right to discuss an updated privacy framework for the United States that maintains the ability to think and learn from data while also…

As long as there has been data, there has been observational data. The whole basis of science is running experiments and recording the results, or “observed data.” Just as sensors…

Talk of trade wars makes the importance of data driven innovation even more pressing. Trade agreements affect not just tangible assets, such as steel and aluminum, but also assets, such…

In 2016 and 2017, the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party (WP29) adopted Action Plans which set forth its global implementation strategy related to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).…

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 keep their data safe.  Data security…

Data flows are global, but privacy laws are local. I first uttered that statement in the last century during initial discussions on whether the United States had adequate privacy protection…