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The directive contains a number of key principles with which member states must comply. Anyone processing personal data must comply with the eight enforceable principles of good practice. [10] They state that the data must be: Fairly and lawfully processed. Processed for limited purposes. Adequate, relevant and not excessive. Accurate.
This privacy objective is supported by ten main principles and over seventy objectives, with associated measurable criteria. The ten principles are: Management; Notice; Choice and consent; Collection; Use, retention and disposal; Access; Disclosure to third parties; Security for privacy; Quality; Monitoring and enforcement
The core principles of privacy addressed by these principles are: 1. Notice/Awareness [12] Consumers should be given notice of an entity's information practices before any personal information is collected from them. [12] This requires that companies explicitly notify some or all of the following: identification of the entity collecting the data;
Information privacy is the relationship between the collection and dissemination of data, technology, the public expectation of privacy, contextual information norms, and the legal and political issues surrounding them. [1] It is also known as data privacy [2] [3] or data protection.
Personal data includes "information in respect of commercial transactions ... that relates directly or indirectly to a data subject" while sensitive personal data includes any "personal data consisting of information as to the physical or mental health or condition of a data subject, his political opinions, his religious beliefs or other ...
In 1980, the OECD issued recommendations for protection of personal data in the form of eight principles. These were non-binding and in 1995, the European Union (EU) enacted a more binding form of governance, i.e. legislation, to protect personal data privacy in the form of the Data Protection Directive.
Accountability—data subjects should have a method available to them to hold data collectors accountable for not following the above principles. [32] The OECD guidelines, however, were nonbinding, and data privacy laws still varied widely across Europe.
The right to privacy is protected also by more than 600 laws in the states and by a dozen federal laws, like those protecting health and student information, also limiting electronic surveillance. [46] As of 2022 however, only five states had data privacy laws. [47]