[nc-whois] Privacy Issues Report: paragraphs on OECD Privacy Guidelines

[Ruchika Agrawal <agrawal@epic.org>]

Dear All:

Here are the paragraphs on the OECD Privacy Guidelines (for an
explanation of the eight principles, please refer to my previous posting
on the OECD Privacy Guidelines, accessible via
http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/nc-whois/Arc00/msg00953.html):

        The OECD Recommendations Concerning and Guidelines Governing the Protection of Privacy and Transborder Flows of Personal Data (hereinafter “OECD Privacy Guidelines”) offer important international consensus on and guidelines for privacy protection.  The OECD Privacy Guidelines set out eight principles for data protection that are widely used as the benchmark for assessing privacy policy and legislation.  [1]  These principles are Collection Limitation; Data Quality; Purpose Specification; Use Limitation; Security Safeguards; Openness; Individual Participation; and Accountability.  [2]

        Representatives from North America, Europe, and Asia drafted the original OECD Privacy Guidelines. Countries around the world, with varying cultures and systems of governance, have adopted roughly similar approaches to privacy protection with respect to the OECD Privacy Guidelines.   [1, 3]  Thus, the OECD Privacy Guidelines reflect a broad consensus about how to safeguard the control and use of personal information in a world, and especially on the Internet, where data can flow freely across national borders. [1, 2]

[1]  Marc Rotenberg, "What Larry Doesn't Get: Fair Information Practices and the Architecture of Privacy", Presented on February 7, 2000 at the Stanford Law School Symposium on Cyberspace and Privacy, http://stlr.stanford.edu/STLR/Symposia/Cyberspace/00_rotenberg_1/article.htm.

[2]    Marc Rotenberg, The Privacy Law Sourcebook: United States Law, International Law, and Recent Developments 324-52 (EPIC 2002) (“OECD Privacy Guidelines”).

[3]  Colin J. Bennett, "Convergence Revisited: Toward a Global Policy for the Protection of Personal Data", Technology and Privacy:  The New Landscape edited by Philip Agre and Marc Rotenberg, The MIT Press (Cambridge, 1997).

Regards,
Ruchika