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European privacy law is concerned with the protection and preservation of the privacy rights of its citizens, especially the exchange of citizen data with other countries.
In Europe, there is a division between those countries that are members of the European Union (EU) and those that are not. European privacy and data protection laws are affected by this division. EU members must follow an overarching data protection law that specifies minimum data protection requirements and requires each member country to enact their own law that meets these minimum requirements. Non-EU members can decide individually whether or not to have privacy and data protection laws and what requirements should be in place.
EU privacy laws are based on the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) Guidelines on the Protection of Privacy and Transborder Flows of Personal Data. The EU Commission develops and enacts directives that EU members must follow. Compliance is reached when these member countries develop their own laws that meet the minimum requirements stated in the directives.
Those European countries not part of the EU also have privacy and data protection laws in place. Unlike the EU, however, there is not an overarching law that these countries must follow. Each is free to create their own privacy laws. However, it is likely that most laws were based on the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) Guidelines on the Protection of Privacy and Transborder Flows of Personal Data or some set of fair information practice principles.
This law is to guarantee the protection and legitimate use of personal data, and their treatment by public authorities.
This law is to guarantee the right to information on official documents.
Oversight: Agència Andorrana de Protecció de Dades (APDA)
This law is to regulate relations arising at formation of information resources based on creation, collection, processing, accumulation, keeping, search, dissemination of information, at establishment and use of information systems, technology and means for their ensurance and at protection of information. The law also establishes the rights of subjects involved in information processes.
Oversight: Ministry of Communications and Informatization
This law is to secure for every individual his right to privacy, especially with regard to the processing of personal data relating to him.
This law is to establish that every person has a right to access, amend and comment on his personal information that is by public authorities
This law is to establish that every person has a right to access, amend and comment on his personal information that is by public authorities
Everyone shall enjoy freedom from interference with privacy, home, and family life.
Bodily or personal search or a search of a person’s premises or possessions may only be conducted in accordance with a judicial decision or a statutory law provision. This shall also apply to the examination of documents and mail, communications by telephone and other means, and to any other comparable interference with a person’s right to privacy.
Notwithstanding the provisions of the first paragraph above, freedom from interference with privacy, home and family life may be otherwise limited by statutory provisions if this is urgently necessary for the protection of the rights of others.
This law requires governmental authorities to grant the public access to available material on specific matters when requested.
This law is to promote the practice of personal data processing in accordance with fundamental principles and rules regarding data protection and privacy, and to ensure the reliability and integrity of such data and their free flow within the internal market of the European Economic Area.
This act allows the National Archives of Iceland to acquire and preserve records of the public offices and institutions.
Oversight: Icelandic Data Protection Authority
This law is in regards to the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and the free movement of such data.
Oversight: Data Protection Commission
This law is in regards to the collection and access to private information (personal data) and its protection.
This law stipulates the way of distributing, applying, revealing, and protecting the information that represents state secrets for the sake of state security.
Oversight: National Center for Personal Data Protection
Oversight: Data Protection Authority
Oversight: The Data Inspectorate; Consumer Ombudsman
23. (1). Everyone shall have the right to the inviolability of private life, personal and family secrets, the protection of honour and good name. (2). Everyone shall have the right to privacy of correspondence, of telephone conversations, postal, telegraph and other messages. Limitations of this right shall be allowed only by court decision.
24. (1). The collection, keeping, use and dissemination of information about the private life of a person shall not be allowed without his or her consent. (2). The bodies of state authority and local self-government, their officials shall ensure for everyone the possibility of acquainting with the documents and materials directly affecting his or her rights and freedoms, unless otherwise provided for by law.
This law regulates the processing of personal data by federal, state, and municipal authorities, legal entities, and individuals.
This law regulates the process of creation, collection, accumulation, storage, search, and dissemination, and presentation of an individual’s documented information.
Oversight: Roscomnadzor (Data Protection Authority)
Oversight: Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection
Oversight: The Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC)
Cross-Border Data Flow:
U.S. – Switzerland Safe Harbor Framework
The Department of Commerce and the Federal Data Protection and Information Commission of Switzerland established a data protection framework in order for Switzerland to transfer data to the U.S. Self-certification with regard to the U.S.-Swiss Safe Harbor Framework is identical to those steps taken in the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Framework.
Oversight: National Regulatory Commission for Communications
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U.S. Privacy Law
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Australia Privacy Law
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