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Workshop - Data Protection and Privacy Law as a Driver in Sustainable Development (October 2016)

• Slide Presentation at International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners, Marrakech - October 2016
• UN advice on data protection and international data flows
• Key issues
• Selected policy options
• Further Information

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Slide Presentation at International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners, Marrakech - October 2016

Galexia Director, Chris Connolly, delivered a presentation on privacy law and trade at the 38th International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners (Marrakech, 17-20 October 2016). The presentation was part of a high profile Panel on Data Protection and Privacy Law as a Driver in Sustainable Development.

The presentation highlights on the research paper for the United Nations: Data protection regulations and international data flows: Implications for trade and development (UNCTAD 2016), and also lessons from the Global Cloud Computing Scorecard (Galexia / BSA 2016).

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UN advice on data protection and international data flows

• UN report:
  • Data protection regulations and international data flows: Implications for trade and development (April 2016)
    
• Data protection is directly related to trade
  • Too little protection can create negative market effects through affecting consumer confidence
  • Too much protection can overly restrict business activities and trade
• Ensuring that laws consider the global nature and scope of their application, and foster compatibility with other frameworks, is critical

Key issues

• Gaps in coverage
  • National gaps: no laws, partial laws or laws that contain broad exemptions
• Impact of new technologies
• Cross-border data transfers
  • Concerns about data localization requirements
• Balancing surveillance and data protection
• Enforcement of data protection laws
• Determining jurisdiction
• Compliance burdens

Selected policy options

• Adopt baseline legislation based on common principles
• Address gaps in global coverage and avoid fragmentation
• Adopt protection that does not unnecessarily hamper trade and innovation
• Give special attention to cross-border transfers
• Consider compliance burdens
• Establish a regulatory structure that ensures adequate enforcement
• Improve capacity building
• Multi-stakeholder involvement

Further Information

• United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) - Global Cyberlaw Tracker
  • http://unctad.org/en/Pages/DTL/STI_and_ICTs/ICT4D-Legislation/eCom-Global-Legislation.aspx
• Data protection regulations and international data flows: Implications for trade and development (April 2016)
  • http://unctad.org/en/pages/PublicationWebflyer.aspx?publicationid=1468
• BSA / Galexia Global Cloud Computing Scorecard (April 2016)
  • http://cloudscorecard.bsa.org/2016/
  • Look out for the updated version in mid-2017
• Galexia
  • http://www.galexia.com/

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