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New International Data Protection Coalition
Announces Web Site
The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) and privacy enforcement authorities from 12 other countries working to enhance privacy-rules enforcement to protect consumers last month launched a Web site to publicize the effort and to invite more nations to join.
The site of the Global Privacy Enforcement Network (“GPEN”) is www.privacyenforcement.net.
“To protect consumers' privacy in today's global economy, all of us who work in law enforcement around the world need to cooperate with each other,” FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz says in a statement on the FTC's Web site. “We at the FTC are looking forward to working closely with our colleagues overseas to make this happen.”
International organizations such as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (“OECD”) and the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (“APEC”) forum have called for strengthening cooperation in privacy enforcement. The OECD is providing Web site support to GPEN.
In addition to the FTC, network participants include privacy-enforcement authorities from Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain and United Kingdom, the FTC says.
The push to promote international cooperation of privacy-law enforcement that resulted in GPEN started about a year ago. The association was launched in Paris last March.
“We live in a globalized world with new technologies providing infinite possibilities for sharing and re-using information globally,” according to Jacob Kohnstamm, chair of the Dutch Data Protection Authority. “Privacy has thereby also become a global issue. If we want to continue to protect the privacy rights of our national citizens, it is essential that we work together internationally.” The Netherlands is also a founding GPEN nation.
GPEN privacy-agency members stress that the group will not create new legislation. Some refinement of existing rules may well occur, however, and it is possible that through GPEN's work, some nations ' members or not ' could draft and implement consumer-privacy regulations that would become the first ones in those nations or add to existing rules, heightening privacy enforcement and individual consumer privacy.
“The challenges in obtaining redress for consumers whose privacy has been compromised in today's digital environment can be daunting,” New Zealand Privacy Commissioner Marie Shroff says in a statement on the GPEN Web site. “GPEN is part of a collective effort to provide more effective cross-border enforcement and complaints resolution. This is as relevant for a small economy in the South Pacific as it is for Europe and North America, and New Zealand is pleased to play its part.” New Zealand is also a GPEN founding nation.
Yoram Hacohen, head of the Israeli Law, Information and Technology Authority, says that GPEN founders will huddle in a closed session at the International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners (www.privacyconference2010.org) meeting in Jerusalem this month to discuss including agencies that enforce consumer-protection, competition, and securities practices. Hacohen says GPEN members aim to develop modules that would foster such collaboration.
New International Data Protection Coalition
Announces Web Site
The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) and privacy enforcement authorities from 12 other countries working to enhance privacy-rules enforcement to protect consumers last month launched a Web site to publicize the effort and to invite more nations to join.
The site of the Global Privacy Enforcement Network (“GPEN”) is www.privacyenforcement.net.
“To protect consumers' privacy in today's global economy, all of us who work in law enforcement around the world need to cooperate with each other,” FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz says in a statement on the FTC's Web site. “We at the FTC are looking forward to working closely with our colleagues overseas to make this happen.”
International organizations such as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (“OECD”) and the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (“APEC”) forum have called for strengthening cooperation in privacy enforcement. The OECD is providing Web site support to GPEN.
In addition to the FTC, network participants include privacy-enforcement authorities from Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, The
The push to promote international cooperation of privacy-law enforcement that resulted in GPEN started about a year ago. The association was launched in Paris last March.
“We live in a globalized world with new technologies providing infinite possibilities for sharing and re-using information globally,” according to Jacob Kohnstamm, chair of the Dutch Data Protection Authority. “Privacy has thereby also become a global issue. If we want to continue to protect the privacy rights of our national citizens, it is essential that we work together internationally.” The
GPEN privacy-agency members stress that the group will not create new legislation. Some refinement of existing rules may well occur, however, and it is possible that through GPEN's work, some nations ' members or not ' could draft and implement consumer-privacy regulations that would become the first ones in those nations or add to existing rules, heightening privacy enforcement and individual consumer privacy.
“The challenges in obtaining redress for consumers whose privacy has been compromised in today's digital environment can be daunting,” New Zealand Privacy Commissioner Marie Shroff says in a statement on the GPEN Web site. “GPEN is part of a collective effort to provide more effective cross-border enforcement and complaints resolution. This is as relevant for a small economy in the South Pacific as it is for Europe and North America, and New Zealand is pleased to play its part.” New Zealand is also a GPEN founding nation.
Yoram Hacohen, head of the Israeli Law, Information and Technology Authority, says that GPEN founders will huddle in a closed session at the International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners (www.privacyconference2010.org) meeting in Jerusalem this month to discuss including agencies that enforce consumer-protection, competition, and securities practices. Hacohen says GPEN members aim to develop modules that would foster such collaboration.
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