CIPL Quarterly Reports

CIPL Quarterly Report: July - September 2019

Message from President Bojana Bellamy
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With 2020 already fast approaching, we at CIPL are continuing to work hard on developing solutions to pressing data protection issues, and our CIPL team is growing in order to better support your needs. This past September, we have hired two new privacy managers: Matthew Starr, who joins CIPL as Global Privacy and Public Policy Manager, and Giovanna Carloni, who joins as Global Privacy Policy Manager. We have also recently added former Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe as a Global Strategy Advisor, and he will primarily help shape CIPL’s strategic initiatives in US privacy and drive visibility for our work. .

As part of our work on US privacy, CIPL held a roundtable on organizational accountability with US Senate staff members, and released both a Q&A paper on organizational accountability in data protection, along with a white paper on organizational accountability’s existence in US regulatory compliance and its relevance for a US Federal privacy law. We have also recently launched a project asking CIPL member companies with mature and resilient privacy management programs to map their privacy programs to CIPL’s accountability framework. Our goal in launching this project is to further promote accountability as an essential prerequisite of the modern digital economy and build global consensus between industry and regulators on the meaning and importance of the concept of organizational accountability. 

We are also continuing to engage with regulators around the globe on other privacy topics. We have organized two joint events with the Singapore Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) on Cross-Border Privacy Rules and AI, collaborated with the UK Information Commissioner’s Office on their AI Auditing Framework, and gathered private and public sector stakeholders to discuss Brazil’s new data protection law in Brasilia.

I encourage you to read the details of CIPL’s ongoing work below, and I look forward to the next opportunity to see you all in person.
Highlights from the April - June 2019 Quarterly Report include:
  • Roundtable on "US Privacy Law - Why and How Organizational Accountability Should be Included in Federal Privacy Legislation" in Washington, DC
  • Industry Session on “APEC Cross-Border Privacy Rules and Privacy Recognition for Processors” in Singapore
  • Roundtable on “Personal Data Protection Challenges and Solutions in AI” in Singapore
  • Roundtable on the ICO's AI Auditing Framework in London
  • Workshop on “The LGPD – Implementation and Harmonization with International Data Protection Regimes” in Brasilia
  • Upcoming Events​​

​Member Spotlight
  • We we​lcome and thank our newest project member: Experian
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