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World drafts privacy standard
PRIVACY EXPERTS from 50 countries have worked out a draft agreement on international standards for the protection of privacy and personal data.
The meeting was called the 31st International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy.
If the standard is adopted by governments then data may only be processed after obtaining the "free, unambiguous and informed consent" of the data subjects and it should be deleted when it is no longer necessary.
The standard requires that data collectors must identify themselves and state in clear language the purpose of the data processing and the recipients of the gathered data.
If an organisation wants to transfer private data offshore then it may only be sent to a country that "affords, as a minimum, the level of protection provided for in the document".
According to a statement, the participants hope the draft international standards will serve as the basis for a universal, binding legal instrument on data protection.
However getting countries to adopt the standard is a jolly long way off. Still, the draft standard has a bit of authority. More than 1,000 participants from around the world took part in the conference, which was backed by the US Homeland Security Secretary, Google and Facebook. µ
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It is essential that such apps that are known all over the world and have quite a reach into user's private lives be part of such efforts.
Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of the DHS, which seems to me to be a lot more interested in finding out how to circumvent privacy rather than respect it.
This new privacy standard would include DNA databases where DNA swabbing "evidence" of individuals would be deleted completely from all databases around the world if an individual is never either convicted or charged with a crime right? Currently (as many may know), in the United States, cops routinely take DNA swabs from individuals and put it in their databases even though someone was never even charged with a crime. DNA profiles should be removed from all databases after 2 months if no charge was ever filed and after a trial ends if a person was charged but then found innocent. The world is becoming more and more like a police state isn't it?
Murder and kidnapping have been illegal for eons yet that has never stopped governments.....and sometimes private corporations.....from breaking these laws with impunity.
Sign all the privacy laws you wish....it will change nothing.