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African Personal Data Protection
Nearly two-thirds of the 54 nations of the African continent has data privacy protection as a regulation, is in process of making it, or has it as part of their constitutions. For the nations that have data protection mechanisms, the themes include:
- Notice
- Choice and consent
- Data security
- Data access and correction
- Data quality and integrity
- Data retention and destruction
- Registration with a data protection authority (DPA)
- Cross-border data transfers
- Personal data breach notification
- Appointment of a data protection officer (DPO)
Asia–Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Privacy Framework
APEC is a regional economic forum established in 1989 to leverage the growing interdependence of the Asia–Pacific region. APEC’s 21 members aim to create greater prosperity for the people of the region by promoting balanced, inclusive, sustainable, innovative, and secure growth and by accelerating regional economic integration. In November 2011, the APEC leaders issued a directive to implement the APEC Cross-Border Privacy Rules (CBPR) system. The CBPR system balances the flow of information and data across borders while at the same time providing effective protection for personal information, essential to trust and confidence in the online marketplace. The system is one by which the privacy policies and practices of companies operating in the APEC region are assessed and certified by a third-party verifier (known as an accountability agent) and follow a set of commonly agreed-upon rules, based on the APEC Privacy Framework. By applying this commonly agreed-upon baseline set of rules, the CBPR system bridges across domestic differences that may exist among domestic privacy approaches. Currently, six APEC member economies—Canada, Japan, Republic of Korea, Mexico, Singapore, and the United States—have aligned their privacy laws with the APEC Privacy Framework.
Reference: https://www.apec.org/Groups/Committee-on-Trade-and-Investment/Electronic-Commerce-Steering-Group
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