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David and All,<br>
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.
<p>I. <b>Global Data Protection Laws <br>
</b></p>
<p>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:
</p>
<ol>
<li>
<p>“Global Tables of Data Privacy Laws and Bills (4<sup>th</sup>
Ed, January 2015)” with 109 countries; and</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>“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:</p>
<p>“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)</p>
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</ol>
<b>II. Council of Europe</b>
<p>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: </p>
<p><a
href="http://www.coe.int/en/web/conventions/full-list/-/conventions/treaty/108/signatures?p_auth=o943zouk"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.coe.int/en/web/conventions/full-list/-/conventions/treaty/108/signatures?p_auth=o943zouk">http://www.coe.int/en/web/conventions/full-list/-/conventions/treaty/108/signatures?p_auth=o943zouk</a></a></p>
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III. <b>European Union</b>
<p style="font-weight: normal">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,
<a
href="http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=URISERV%3Al14012"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=URISERV%3Al14012">http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=URISERV%3Al14012</a></a>.
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<p>Tx again for this important collection of documents.</p>
<p>Best,</p>
Kathy
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