By Matt Klinger
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
(OECD) recently updated its Guidelines governing the Protection of Privacy and
Transborder Flows of Personal Data ("Revised Guidelines"). While the set of
eight principles established in the original guidelines published in 1980
remain intact, the Revised Guidelines introduce at least three new
concepts: (1) the importance of a coordinated national privacy strategy;
(2) the need for privacy management programs within organizations; and (3) data
breach security notification regimes.
In addition, the OECD has highlighted two themes that
run throughout the Revised Guidelines. First is a "focus on the
practical implementation of privacy protection through an approach grounded in
risk management." Second is the "need for greater efforts to
address the global dimension of privacy through improved
interoperability."
These revisions help modernize the guidelines to accommodate
vast changes in data generation and flows since 1980. They also serve,
however, to highlight the enduring nature of the OECD's data protection
principles.
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