National data protection authority

There are across the world several National data protection authorities, which are authorities tasked with information privacy. In the European Union and the EFTA member countries their status was formalized by the Data Protection Directive[1] and they were involved in the Madrid Resolution.

This project is a part of the work of the International Law Commission of the United Nations.

Authorities by group of states
  • On the European level, it is the G29 and the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS). The process was backed in 2005 by the Council of Europe, during the World Summit on the Information Society (Tunis, November 2005), and in 2006/2007 within forums on Internet governance (Athens 2006, Rio 2007).
  • On 12 June 2007, OECD recommendation regarding "trans-frontier cooperation for legislations protecting privacy enforcement" was adopted. It aimed in particular to "improve national Privacy law enforcements so that national authorities can better cooperate with foreign authorities and put in place efficient international mechanisms to ease trans-frontier cooperation for legislations protecting privacy enforcement".
  • An Ibero-American network of data protection exists. In May 2008, during its 6th meeting, in Colombia, its declaration asking international conferences on data protection and privacy to "pursue their efforts, regardless of their geographical location, in order to adopt common legal instruments".
  • Another network is that of the Central and Eastern data protection authority (CEDPA). This network has expressed its will to pursue and strengthen its activities within the CEDPA, notably to elaborate common solutions and assist new members with the establishment of data protection legislation. That was during the June 2008 meeting in Poland.

List of national data protection authorities

European Economic Area

Europe

Africa
  •  Angola: Data Protection Agency (Portuguese: Agência de Proteção de Dados), known as APD
  •  Egypt: No national authority is responsible for data protection.
  •  Ghana: Data Protection Commission
  •  Morocco: Commission nationale de contrôle de la protection des données à caractère personnel (lit. 'National Commission for the Control of the Protection of Personal Data'), also known as CNDP
  •  Mozambique: No national authority is responsible for data protection.
  •  Nigeria: National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) and Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) provide services regarding data protection.
  •  South Africa: Information Regulator[3]
  •  Tunisia: National Authority for Protection of Personal Data (French: Instance nationale de protection des données personnelles), known as INPDP
  •  Zimbabwe: There is currently no data protection authority but the Zimbabwe Media Commission comments on the degree of protection of privacy from public bodies programs.

Asia

Oceania

North America
  •  Canada: Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (French: Commissariat à la protection de la vie privée du Canada)
  •  Mexico: National Institute of Transparency for Access to Information and Personal Data Protection (Spanish: Instituto Nacional de Transparencia, Acceso a la Información y Protección de Datos Personales (INAI))
  •  USA: There is no single national authority.

South America
  •  Argentina: Dirección Nacional de Protección de Datos Personales (lit. 'National Direction for Private Data Protection'), known as PDP
  •  Bolivia: No national authority is responsible for data protection.
  •  Brazil: National Data Protection Authority (ANPD)[4]
  •  Chile: There is no dedicated authority.
  •  Colombia: Superintendency of Industry and Commerce (SIC)
  •  Costa Rica: Agency for the Protection of Individual's Data (Spanish: Agencia de Protección de datos de los Habitantes), known as PRODHAB
  •  Dominican Republic: No national authority is responsible for data protection.
  •  Honduras: National Civil Registry (Spanish: Registro Nacional de las Personas)[5] and Institute for the Access to Public Information (Spanish: Instituto Acceso Informacion Publica)[6]
  •  Panama: No national authority is responsible for data protection.
  •  Peru: Ministerio de Justicia y Derechos Humanos (Perú) (lit. 'Ministry of Justice and Human Rights')
  •  Venezuela: No national authority is responsible for data protection.

See also

General aspects

Technical aspects

References
  1. Article 28 of EU directive 95/46/EC
  2. https://www.ldi.nrw.de/mainmenu_Service/submenu_Links/Inhalt2/Aufsichtsbehoerden/Aufsichtsbehoerden.php
  3. http://www.justice.gov.za/inforeg/
  4. "Brazil's Temer creates data protection agency - official gazette". Reuters. 2018-12-28. Retrieved 2018-12-28.
  5. http://www.rnp.hn
  6. http://www.iaip.gob.hn
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