Getting the Best Outcomes: Pathways for Data Protection and Privacy Authorities

The paper, written in partnership with Richard Thomas CBE, raises two fundamental questions for data protection authorities:

• What should DPAs be doing and prioritizing?
• How should they be doing it?
• While these questions are not easy to answer, they are essential to explore.

Building on our previous work, including the Regulating for Results Paper (2017) and the closed session during the Global Privacy Assembly in Istanbul, in this paper we set out ways for DPAs to maximize their effectiveness as regulatory bodies in a time of growing demand for their time and expertise.

Our recommendations draw on experience in other sectors of regulation and on evidence as to what does – and does not – work. We offer pathways to effectiveness in hopes of stimulating discussion around how to achieve the best regulatory outcomes at a time of profound digital industrial revolution.

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