An Educational Blog About Information Accountability

Automated Decision-Making and Profiling are Not New Issues

Mar 29, 2023
The following blog was taken directly from the IAF comments filed in response to the California Privacy Protection Agency request ...

CLEANUP IN AISLE ADPPA

Mar 20, 2023
A comprehensive, preemptive, federal privacy law that creates a single set of rules for the United States is a once ...

The IAF Celebrates Ten Years of Focusing on Accountability and Governance

Feb 21, 2023
The IAF celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2023, and recently published our annual report - 2022 Highlights and 2023 Policy Directions. Over ...

Making Data Driven Innovation Work

Feb 14, 2023
It is increasingly understood digital agendas in both the public and private sectors are about creating safe pathways for data ...

Who Is Paying the Policy Debt?

Jan 27, 2023
Everyone! There is a technology concept called the “tech debt.”  It accumulates over time when software development applies the easy ...

A Principled Approach to Data Protection Risk Balancing

Dec 13, 2022
Data is necessary for information, and information is necessary for knowledge.  Knowledge can be used to advance as well as ...

Dynamic Data Security Should Be the Policy Default: Dynamic Data Obscurity Revisited

By Martin Abrams | January 11, 2021 | Comments Off on Dynamic Data Security Should Be the Policy Default: Dynamic Data Obscurity Revisited

The IAF used the phrase “Dynamic Data Obscurity” in 2015 when…

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The Movement Towards Demonstrable Accountability – Why It Matters

By Lynn Goldstein and Peter Cullen | December 14, 2020 | Comments Off on The Movement Towards Demonstrable Accountability – Why It Matters

First published in IAPP Daily Dashboard There is “accountability tension”…

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There Is Only One Opportunity for Initial Design of the First Data Protection Agency in the United States

By Martin Abrams | December 10, 2020 | Comments Off on There Is Only One Opportunity for Initial Design of the First Data Protection Agency in the United States

This blog reflects the views of Marty Abrams The style,…

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Multilateral Proportionality Requires Definition

By Martin Abrams | October 29, 2020 | Comments Off on Multilateral Proportionality Requires Definition

The stresses of 2020 have challenged the data protection community’s…

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How to Use AI ethically and responsibly? An Ohio State webinar series will provide some answers

By Dennis Hirsch, Faculty Director, Ohio State Program on Data and Governance | September 28, 2020 | Comments Off on How to Use AI ethically and responsibly? An Ohio State webinar series will provide some answers

To succeed in a data-driven economy, companies must innovate with…

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Risk Based Should Be More Than A Cliché

By Martin Abrams | September 22, 2020 | Comments Off on Risk Based Should Be More Than A Cliché

The IAF will hold a policy call October 14 on…

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Canada is the Right Place to Explore Next Generation Privacy Legislation

By Martin Abrams | September 9, 2020 | Comments Off on Canada is the Right Place to Explore Next Generation Privacy Legislation

Privacy law is less settled today than it was when…

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Muddling as a Data Protection Strategy

By Martin Abrams | August 19, 2020 | Comments Off on Muddling as a Data Protection Strategy

Schrems II has led to muddling as the latest data…

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Data Protection Should Be Proportional to Other Individual Rights

By Martin Abrams | August 6, 2020 | Comments Off on Data Protection Should Be Proportional to Other Individual Rights

COVID-19 has been a grim reminder of how unfair the…

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Time for a Global Treaty

By Martin Abrams | July 22, 2020 | Comments Off on Time for a Global Treaty

“What a revoltin’ development this is!”  This exclamation is from the 1950’s…

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