APEC Privacy Framework

This is the APEC Privacy Framework page of the "Interpreting Privacy Principles" research project. [Some of this work grew out of the Asia Pacific Privacy Charter Council.]

The APEC Privacy Framework (40 page 194KB PDF) is a potentially important influence on the development of privacy law and regulation in Australia and the region.

Analysis of the Framework

(NB: 'APEC ECSG' means 'APEC E-Commerce Steering Group')

• Nigel Waters' APEC update September 2010
• Nigel Waters' report from his participation in the APEC Data Privacy Subgroup and associated meetings in Japan, February 2010.
• Nigel Waters' report from his participation in the APEC Data Privacy Subgroup and associated meetings in Singapore, February 2009
• Nigel Waters' briefing for APEC Data Privacy Subgroup and associated meetings in Japan, February 2009
• Nigel Waters' report from his participation in the APEC Data Privacy Subgroup and associated meetings and his paper from the APEC Technical Assistance Seminar on International Implementation of the APEC Privacy Framework in Peru, August 2008. A summary is available here.
• Nigel Waters' report and notes from his participation in APEC privacy meeting in Peru for NGOs, March and February 2008
• Nigel Waters, 'The APEC Privacy Initiative – a civil society perspective from late 2007', October 2007
• [other commentary] Dr Chris Pounder, 'Why the APEC Privacy Framework is unlikely to protect privacy', Out-Law, 15 October 2007
  See also 'Proposed global privacy standard is too vague and too weak, says expert', Out-Law, 15 October 2007
• G Greenleaf, "APEC Privacy Framework completed: No threat to privacy standards" [2006] Privacy Law and Policy Reporter 5
• G Greenleaf, "APEC’s Privacy Framework: A new low standard" [2005] Privacy Law and Policy Reporter 1
• APEC released the final version of what is now called the APEC Privacy Framework 2004 [PDF] following the APEC meeting in Santiago Chile on 20 November 2004.
  [Alternative HTML version.]
• See also the official media release about the document.
• APPCC Submission on versions 9 and 10, 31 May 2004.
  APEC ECSG Privacy Sub- Group Chair's Consultation Draft (Version 10?) 31 March 2004.
• G Greenleaf, 'Criticisms of the APEC Privacy Principles, Version 9' draft of 16 March 2004.
• APEC ECSG Privacy Sub-Group Chair's draft, Version 9 (28 February 2004).
• G Greenleaf, "The APEC privacy initiative: 'OECD Lite' for the Asia-Pacific?",
  Privacy Laws and Business International Newsletter Issue 71 (UK) (2004)
• G Greenleaf, 'APEC privacy principles: More Lite with every version', [2003] 10(6) Privacy Law & Policy Reporter (November 2003)
• APEC ECSG Privacy Sub-Group Chair's draft, Version 3 (July 2003)
• See in particular: Draft APEC Privacy Framework, and Proposals for changes
• G Greenleaf, 'APEC Privacy Principles Version 2: Not quite so Lite, and NZ wants OECD full strength,'
  [2003] 10 Privacy Law & Policy Reporter 3 (June 2003)
  APEC ECSG Privacy Sub Group Chair's draft, Version 2 (May 2003)
• APEC Privacy Principles
  Proposals
• G Greenleaf, 'Australia's APEC Privacy Initiative: The pros and cons of 'OECD Lite','
  [2003] 10 Privacy Law & Policy Reporter 1 (May 2003)
• APEC ECSG, 'Data privacy' pages (March 2003)
• APEC ECSG Privacy Sub Group Chair's draft, Version 1 (February 2003)
• APEC Privacy Principles
• Privacy Implementation Mechanisms
• APEC, Status Report on Drafting the Asia-Pacific Telecommunity (APT) Privacy Guidelines (February 2003)

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The "Interpreting Privacy Principles" research project is supported by an ARC Discovery grant 2006-2009 to a research team based at the Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre, UNSW Faculty of Law.