The International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners recently completed its 41st annual meeting in Tirana, Albania, and announced a new name for the organization: the Global Privacy Assembly. “However, I am concerned that the new name doesn’t reflect the complexity of the issues confronting this community so that data serves humanity rather than making people targets,” Information Accountability Foundation Executive Director and Chief Strategist Martin Abrams writes. In this piece for Privacy Perspectives, Abrams explains how privacy regulators’ goal to protect people has evolved beyond terms such as privacy, data protection and data processing and why privacy pros should “embrace the greater scope for privacy.”
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