IAF Strategy and Policy Impact Video Call on FTC Privacy Rule Making
The Biden Administration has asked the FTC to establish rules on surveillance and the accumulation of data. Such rules will have strategic impact. FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter says these new rules will require data minimization, but what is the minimal data for training algorithms? It will be targeted to combat abusive processing, but it still needs to work within the…
IAF Thursday Chat
Is 2022 going to be a rerun of 2021? Privacy operations will continue to focus on data subject rights. Yet data subjects’ rights are ultimately about individuals managing the fair use of data pertaining to them. Late last year NTIA held a listing session that reiterated that the individual as the primary means for managing data pertaining…
IAF Special Privacy Week Policy and Strategy Call
If the reason for the United States to enact comprehensive privacy legislation is to protect against negative outcomes, then those outcomes need to be identified. The IAF model privacy legislation suggests the negative outcomes to be targeted are “Adverse Processing Outcomes.” Others have suggested the target should be preventing harm, and professors Citron and Solove…
IAF Thursday Chat
The IAF Thursday Chat returns February 3rd and there is much to discuss. The UK government announced the “Brexit Freedoms Bill” January 31, stating: UK Government consulted in the autumn on proposals that seek to create an ambitious, pro-growth and innovation-friendly UK data protection regime that underpins the trustworthy use of data. The Government will be publishing…
IAF Policy and Strategy Call
More information to come soon.
IAF Thursday Chat
Call in details to come.
IAF Policy & Strategy Call on Risk Shape Shifting
There are times that a research question changes the further one gets into a research project. The more the IAF delved into the “Risk of what?” project, the more we saw the question of “Risk of what?” as being like the “Boggart” from "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” - a shape-shifting creature that assumes the form of…
IAF Side Event April 11 on New Governance Models that Preserve Positive Innovative Data Uses
Please join us for a CLE seminar The new risk calculus for data-forward companies in an age of escalating cyber and adverse consequence third-party risk: Their risk is your risk Please join DLA Piper, The Information Accountability Foundation, and The Providence Group to explore data use risk governance that anticipates tomorrow’s regulatory…
IAF Policy and Strategy Call: Risk Shape Shifting Session 1
A major part of privacy management is identification of risk. However, unlike other governance elements, it is about risk to others. Furthermore, it is about how others frame the adverse outcomes to which the risk pertains. This session will focus on three framers of privacy risk: the courts, advocates and media. To help explore these…
IAF Thursday Chat
Does weak state privacy legislation enhance data sustainability and therefore operational resilience? I don’t think so. I have read the passed legislation in Iowa, and I am left disappointed. The Iowa law mimics the Colorado, Connecticut, and Virginia laws without some of the provisions which give them teeth, like the data protection assessment requirements. The U.S. needs comprehensive…
IAF Strategic Workshop on Stakeholder’ Risk and Proportionality
Please join the IAF Monday afternoon April 3, 2023 in Washington DC for a strategic discussion and policy workshop on visualizing and weighing all stakeholders' interests in processing data about people. Stakeholders go beyond the data subject and the controller and include parties impacted by the processing that are not the active participants. Colorado, Virginia and…