As privacy professionals, our foundational principles should always serve as our North Star. Principles like transparency, autonomy and choice guide us in our practice, even when other markers fail to point the way. If the principles are Polaris, the policies and procedures we deploy to properly sa...

The Office Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario is in the midst of its second annual IPC Transparency Challenge. Commissioner Patricia Kosseim is encouraging Ontario's public-sector organizations to submit their work on open data initiatives that improve government transparency. A number...

Nigeria's Data Protection Commission issued a highly-anticipated guidance notice 14 Feb. on the "Registration of Data Controllers and Data Processors of Major Importance." Enacted 12 June 2023, Section 65 of Nigeria's Data Protection Act introduced data controllers and data processors of major impo...

Several Australian government officials, including the prime minister and attorney-general, issued a joint statement committing to protecting against online harms. The statement noted the intention to bring legislation in August to reform the Privacy Act. Specifically, officials called out the need ...

IAPP Managing Director, Washington, D.C., Cobun Zweifel-Keegan, CIPP/US, CIPM, offers his take on the latest privacy and artificial intelligence governance developments in the nation's capital and around the U.S. This week, he analyzes the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's privacy authority a...