For the past month, IAF staff has been working to turn the IAF data protection principles released last Summer into legislative language....

Last fall, the Information Accountability Foundation (IAF) completed work, commissioned by the Office of the Hong Kong Privacy...

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

Privacy law began  in the United States when Congress enacted the Federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”) in 1970.  While framed as...

Many of the world’s privacy, technology, and policy experts are in Brussels this week for the 40th International Conference of Data...

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

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...

Privacy legislation again is a hot topic in the United States.  The California Consumer Privacy Act has added to the pressure provided by...

Draft 6 08282018 0800 The time is right to discuss an updated privacy framework for the United States that maintains the ability to think...

“Data should serve people, people should not serve data.” With those words Giovanni Buttarrelli summarized the intersection of privacy...

As long as there has been data, there has been observational data. The whole basis of science is running experiments and recording the...

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

A comprehensive privacy law is again being considered in the United States, with numerous draft bills out for discussion.  Key elements...

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...

The vast amount of data made possible and accessible through today’s information technologies, and the ever-increasing analytical...

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...

Data flows are global, but privacy laws are local. I first uttered that statement in the last century during initial discussions on...

There seems to be a privacy conference every week in the United States or Europe.  However, privacy training and policy development in...

The term “assessments” appear a great deal in IAF work.  We have written about comprehensive data impact assessments, ethical...

Many years ago, I attended a seminar in Prague on the state of credit scoring in numerous locations in what had been Soviet Europe. I was...

There is no disagreement, whether in Europe, the Americas or Asia, that a fully connected world requires those that think and act with...

Fairness has become a huge data protection policy driver in Europe and the Americas. Fairness is often hard to define in definitive...