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AT A GLANCE
Adopted:
1998
Status:
This declaration updated earlier statements and serves as a backdrop framing international discussions on protecting privacy. The more recent publication, Privacy Online: OECD Guidance on Policy and Practice (2003), focuses on the implementation of this Declaration, including the objective of building bridges between different national approaches."

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OECD's Ministerial Declaration on the Protection of Privacy on Global Networks
Description

This Declaration commits OECD members to:

  • encourage the adoption of privacy policies, whether implemented by legal, self-regulatory, administrative or technological means;
  • encourage the online notification of privacy policies to users; ensure that effective enforcement mechanisms are available both to address non-compliance with privacy principles and policies and to ensure access to redress;
  • promote user education and awareness about online privacy issues and the means at their disposal for protecting privacy on global networks;
  • encourage the use of privacy-enhancing technologies;
  • encourage the use of contractual solutions and the development of model contractual solutions for online transborder data flows;
  • . . .
  • support Member countries in exchanging information about effective methods to protect privacy on global networks;
  • ...
  • co-operate with industry and business as they work to provide privacy protection on global networks, as well as with relevant regional and international organisations"
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Why is this initiative significant?

This document is perhaps more a demonstration of a lack of agreement than real agreement in the international community. Its principles are broad and do not require common approaches among countries.



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