[Gnso-rds-pdp-privacy] Global Data Protections Laws - a rapidly growing number

[Kathy Kleiman]

David and All,
I appreciate this Privacy sub-group mission of seeking additional 
information about privacy and data protection frameworks and laws that 
impact our work in this WG. The world has changed significantly since 
the founding of ICANN, particularly re: privacy and data protection 
laws. Currently, 109 countries have data protection laws – more than 
half the world – and the number is growing rapidly.

I. *Global Data Protection Laws
*

These countries exist in ICANN's key regions, with countries in Africa, 
Asia & the Pacific, Europe, Latin America and North America. I can't 
imagine any registrar who is not touched by these laws or representing 
registrants in these regions. Per the mandate of this sub-group, we are 
asked to lay out information about these data protection laws and 
frameworks and to that end, I attach:

 1.

    “Global Tables of Data Privacy Laws and Bills (4^th Ed, January
    2015)” with 109 countries; and

 2.

    “Global data privacy laws 2015,” an article by Professor Greenleaf,
    which lays out the clear and rapid path of privacy law adoption. He
    writes in the opening to this article:

    “This is the fourth in a series of articles which has documented the
    increasing number of countries with data privacy laws, initially
    assessed in mid-2011 to an (unexpected high) 76, expanding through
    new laws and further research to 89 by early 2012, and then by
    mid-2013 to 99. The number of countries which have now enacted data
    privacy laws has risen to 109 over the past eighteen months.” (attached)

*II. Council of Europe*

Further, the Council of Europe's Treaty 108 on Data Protection is signed 
by 47 countries with 3 more in the process of signing. All are listed in 
this attachment and I would like to request that this treaty and its 
signatories become an official part of our sub-group record:

http://www.coe.int/en/web/conventions/full-list/-/conventions/treaty/108/signatures?p_auth=o943zouk


III. *European Union*

Finally, the European Data Protection Directive, 1995, is a key document 
for the 28 countries of the European Union and a foundation document for 
the dozens of data protection laws that followed around the world. The 
28 members of the EU are: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Republic 
of Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, 
Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, 
Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, 
Sweden and the UK. I would ask that the Directive be included in our 
materials, 
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=URISERV%3Al14012.

Tx again for this important collection of documents.

Best,

Kathy
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