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Dec 14 2022

Statement regarding OECD Declaration on Government Access to Personal Data held by Private Sector Entities

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Today members of the CSISAC Steering Committee attending the OECD Ministerial in Gran Canaria, Spain released a statement regarding the new OECD Declaration on Government Access to Personal Data Held by Private Sector Entities. WPF Executive Director is on site in Gran Canaria and made a formal statement to the ministers during the adoption meeting

Nov 18 2022

India’s Ministry of Electronics and IT has opened a consultation on its freshly proposed comprehensive privacy legislation, DPDP 2022

After many study commissions and multiple serious attempts at a comprehensive data privacy bill, India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has proposed a new draft privacy bill, and has opened a public consultation regarding the draft until 17 December 2022. The Ministry states that the proposed bill, the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill 2022

Apr 03 2018

Archived WPF privacy policy 2013-2018

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Privacy Policy This privacy policy was updated April 3, 2018. Earlier versions of our policy are linked at the bottom of the page. ——– This privacy policy applies to the World Privacy Forum web site, www.worldprivacyforum.org, and to other privacy activities of the World Privacy Forum. All personal information processed at our website is processed

May 13 2015

Public comments: WPF encourages NIST to refine report on de-identification of personally identifiable information

The World Privacy Forum submitted comments today to the National Institute of Standards and Technology in response to its publication, Draft Report on De-Identification of Personally Identifiable Information (NISTIR 8053). The WPF welcomes the draft NIST report, as the area of de-identification and re-identification of personal data swirls with controversy and confusion. We see considerable value

Sep 05 2012

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