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The latest updates and articles from the IAF


Who Is Paying the Policy Debt?
Everyone! There is a technology concept called the “tech debt.” It accumulates over time when software development applies the easy and...
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Jan 27, 20234 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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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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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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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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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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IAF BLOG- Data Ethics Must Translate into Sound Business Process
Many of the world’s privacy, technology, and policy experts are in Brussels this week for the 40th International Conference of Data...
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Oct 22, 20182 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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Accountability Does Work
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...
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Sep 22, 20172 min read
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