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' 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 consortium led by UNSW's Professor Graham Greenleaf, hosted at the Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre.