This series of posts presents a survey of the privacy regulations that you’ll need to understand in order to protect your business. We’ll look at the most significant nations and also provide you with the necessary resources for you to dig further on any specific country of interest.
Asia, in its vastness and complexity, doesn’t lend itself to a continental overview. In this post, we’ll look at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) member states and move on to the major economic powers.
Even so, we will certainly not be able to cover every single country in Asia. For deeper, country-specific investigations, our two top recommendations are to start with the IAPP and then look at the international law firm DLA Piper’s compendium on “Data Protection Laws of the World.”
Over the past twenty years, privacy legislation in Africa has been gaining momentum; 33 countries in the continent now having some form of data protection laws on the books.
Additionally, the three main regional organizations—the African Union, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), and the Southern African Development Community (SADC)—have all published or adopted privacy and cybersecurity acts.
As much as the GDPR is the 800-pound gorilla in European data privacy regulations, there are countries that are currently outside of its direct reach. Find out about them here.
Even if your firm doesn’t do much business in Europe, you need to understand their privacy legislation anyway. Why? Because their General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has set the standard for privacy regulations all across our planet.
In a previous post, we gave an overview of data privacy legislation in the United States, both federal and state. We’ll discuss our North American neighbors here.
If your business is located in the United States or does business there, allow us to introduce you to the alphabet soup of regulators that have some impact or authority on data privacy. Pay close attention and memorize the following. (There will be a quiz!)
Privacy legislation in South American countries goes back to the predecessor of the GDPR, the European Data Protection Directive of 1995. Since that time, and following the introduction of the GDPR, most South American countries have followed suit in updating their own privacy laws to align with the GDPR. This article takes a look at three of the continent’s major economic powers: Brazil, Argentina, and Colombia.
CTRL Center’s Reference Desk offers a region-by-region survey of data-protection laws. Unfortunately, just like everything else relating to cybersecurity, the landscape is constantly changing. Where can you go to make sure you know the very latest legal developments? Read on for some advice.