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 ...

Knowledge Discovery Alone Is Not a Similarly Significant Effect

By Information Accountability | March 4, 2020 | Comments Off on Knowledge Discovery Alone Is Not a Similarly Significant Effect

New knowledge drives mankind forward. Sometimes the knowledge is used wisely;…

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IAF Releases Model Legislation Summary

By Information Accountability | January 15, 2020 | Comments Off on IAF Releases Model Legislation Summary

The California Consumer Privacy Protection Act went into effect on…

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Digital Activities go Beyond Privacy and Data Protection

By Information Accountability | November 13, 2019 | Comments Off on Digital Activities go Beyond Privacy and Data Protection

Sunday, November 10, the New York Times ran a story…

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IAF Releases “Advanced Data Analytic Processing – 2019 Update”

By Information Accountability | November 11, 2019 | Comments Off on IAF Releases “Advanced Data Analytic Processing – 2019 Update”

Posted on 11 November 2019 by Martin Abrams • 0 Comments Central to the work…

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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

By Information Accountability | October 31, 2019 | Comments Off on 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…

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The Fair Information Policy Development Vacuum

By Information Accountability | October 10, 2019 | Comments Off on The Fair Information Policy Development Vacuum

Over the past decade, policy development in the data protection…

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Hard Law Must Mesh With Contextual Based Fair Use

By Information Accountability | September 24, 2019 | Comments Off on Hard Law Must Mesh With Contextual Based Fair Use

The 41st International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners (ICDPPC)…

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Look to Baseball for an Example of Accountability Oversight

By Information Accountability | September 9, 2019 | Comments Off on Look to Baseball for an Example of Accountability Oversight

One of the ways to enhance the trustworthiness of accountability…

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Trust Deficit Acceleration Means Trust but Verify

By Information Accountability | September 5, 2019 | Comments Off on Trust Deficit Acceleration Means Trust but Verify

Dirty diesel cars, opiates, income disparities, and institutional failures.  The…

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The Incubation of Trust Based Governance Systems Should Be Encouraged

By Lynn Goldstein and Peter Cullen | July 18, 2019 | Comments Off on The Incubation of Trust Based Governance Systems Should Be Encouraged

Increasingly, around the world, there is a shift in the…

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