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The latest updates and articles from the IAF
Time for a Global Treaty
“What a revoltin’ development this is!” This exclamation is from the 1950’s sitcom, “The Life of Riley.” Today it is a great...
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Jul 22, 20205 min read
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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
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Transparency Needs a Makeover
It seems ironic to be using the term “makeover” in the midst of the global pandemic as many of us are in need of a haircut and as my wife...
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May 5, 20207 min read
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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
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Bermuda 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...
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Mar 31, 20202 min read
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A Pivot (Back) to Accountability
In a recent article , Sheila Colclasure, Senior Vice President and Global Public Policy Officer at LiveRamp, wrote: “If you want your...
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Mar 28, 20204 min read
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Demonstrable 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...
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Mar 24, 20203 min read
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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
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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
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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
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IAF Releases “Advanced Data Analytic Processing – 2019 Update”
Central to the work of the Information Accountability Foundation is the concept that using data to discover new insights about people...
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Nov 11, 20191 min read
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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
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The 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...
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Oct 10, 20195 min read
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Hard 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,...
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Sep 24, 20193 min read
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Look to Baseball for an Example of Accountability Oversight
One of the ways to enhance the trustworthiness of accountability processes is for there to be oversight of the accountability process. ...
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Sep 9, 20192 min read
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Trust Deficit Acceleration Means Trust but Verify
Dirty diesel cars, opiates, income disparities, and institutional failures. The trust deficit caused by these abuses or plain mistakes...
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Sep 5, 20195 min read
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The Incubation of Trust Based Governance Systems Should Be Encouraged
Increasingly, around the world, there is a shift in the way privacy legislative and regulatory approaches are being developed. This is in...
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Jul 18, 20195 min read
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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
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Big Data Set to Transform Privacy, Create New Iteration of Accountability
By Murray Griffin June 12 –Businesses must rethink their approach to privacy in the era of big data, and they risk a costly backlash if...
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Jun 12, 20193 min read
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Accountability is As Enforceable as Any Other Privacy Management Mechanism
Accountability has increasingly become the nucleus of effective data protection in a world where the observation of people is critical to...
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Jun 6, 20197 min read
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The Glacial Movement of Privacy and the Implications to Accountability
As we see more and more draft privacy law being introduced in Congress and in state legislatures, an increasing number of enforcement...
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Apr 25, 20194 min read
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Stewards Not Fiduciaries
The FTC held its hearing on its Approach to Consumer Privacy on April 9 and 10 In Washington DC. At that Hearing, the questions...
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Apr 22, 20194 min read
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Foundational Issues for New Privacy Law in the United States
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...
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Apr 17, 20196 min read
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Data Driven Knowledge Creation Needs to be Protected
Our collective desire to have a space where we are free from observation is increasingly under pressure from modern technology, and our...
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Apr 1, 20194 min read
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