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The latest updates and articles from the IAF


The IAF Celebrates Ten Years of Focusing on Accountability and Governance
The IAF celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2023, and recently published our annual report – 2022 Highlights and 2023 Policy Directions ....
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Feb 21, 20232 min read
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Making Data Driven Innovation Work
It is increasingly understood digital agendas in both the public and private sectors are about creating safe pathways for data to turn...
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Feb 14, 20234 min read
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The Summer of New Data Protection Redirection
Canada and the United Kingdom are putting forward fair processing ideas that I believe will lead to a new direction in the way data...
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Jul 12, 20224 min read
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AI Impact Assessments Are Necessary and Additive to Existing Business Processes
A paradox exists due to the growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) enabled technology. The adoption of AI by more and more...
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Oct 19, 20214 min read
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Summary of IAF Comments on Proposed EU AI Regulation
Using AI to enable the creation of better insights and for better predictive capabilities a is a clear objective of the European...
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Aug 10, 20217 min read
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My Head Spins – UK Gets Adequacy As Task Force Says GDPR Must Change
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...
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Jun 28, 20212 min read
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Time To Break the Privacy Legislative Paradigm – IAF Model Legislation
Federal privacy legislation in the United States is stuck. There are many reasons for this, but the fact is that the old privacy...
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Jun 3, 20212 min read
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AI and the Road to Expansive Impact Assessments
Assessments related to the complex use of data pertaining to people are about to expand significantly requiring new skills by both...
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May 20, 20213 min read
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The Movement Towards Demonstrable Accountability – Why It Matters
First published in IAPP Daily Dashboard There is “accountability tension” going on which has the potential to stifle technology and data...
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Dec 14, 20204 min read
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Multilateral Proportionality Requires Definition
The stresses of 2020 have challenged the data protection community’s understanding of data protection and how to apply its practices....
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Oct 29, 20206 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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The Need for An Ethical Framework
The vast amount of data made possible and accessible through today’s information technologies, and the ever-increasing analytical...
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Sep 24, 20175 min read
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AI Without Data is Artificial Ignorance
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...
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Mar 13, 20173 min read
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