The views expressed are Martin Abrams’ and shared by other members of the IAF team.  They do not necessarily reflect the views of the IAF...

Canada and the United Kingdom are putting forward fair processing ideas that I believe will lead to a new direction in the way data...

The Queen’s speech, which was delivered by Prince Charles on May 10th, contained the expected announcement that the UK government intends...

Noyb’s posting that the “risk-based approach” to data transfers has been rejected is disingenuous.  Moreover, the Austrian Data...

For the past decade, the privacy ecosystem, company CPOs, policymakers, regulators, academics, advocates, the courts and others have been...

The recently completed UK Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) Consultation on “ Data: A new direction ”  on revising...

The UK Government’s consultation, “Data:  A New Direction” (“Consultation”), reframes the objectives for data protection in a manner not...

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...

The balancing of rights and freedoms is one of the great innovations of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) but one of the...

A generation ago privacy was much simpler.  By “a generation ago,” I mean the beginning of this century.  Yes, the early years of the...

This blog reflects the views of Marty Abrams The style, substance and leadership of data protection agencies make a difference.  Every...

The IAF will hold a policy call October 14 on “What is Risk?” There are different types of privacy risks, and policymakers/regulators and...

Privacy law is less settled today than it was when the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect two...

Schrems II has led to muddling as the latest data protection strategy.  The muddling is over transferring data from Europe to anywhere...

Over the past decade, policy development in the data protection field has been very robust, with some good and bad results and some...

Many consider Canadian privacy law as the pragmatic mid-point between European omnibus rights driven data protection and U.S. sectoral...

In order to encourage innovation in their regions, digital information strategies are being adopted which recognize that the internet and...

Talk of trade wars makes the importance of data driven innovation even more pressing. Trade agreements affect not just tangible assets,...

Authored by Lynn Goldstein and Peter Cullen Last December the European Union’s Article 29 Data Protection Working Party (Working Party)...

In 2016 and 2017, the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party (WP29) adopted Action Plans which set forth its global implementation...