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July 2024

Department of International Law presents OAS Principles on Privacy at the Council of Europe


Department of International Law presents OAS Principles on Privacy at the Council of Europe

The Department of International Law (DIL), in its capacity as an Observer to the Advisory Committee of the Council of Europe Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data (Convention 108), participated in the Committee´s 46th meeting held at the Palace of Europe in Strasbourg France from June 5-7. The Advisory Committee, currently consisting of 55 Member States and over 20 Observers, was established to submit proposals to facilitate and improve the implementation of the Convention.

During its intervention, the DIL took the opportunity to present the OAS Updated Principles on Privacy and the Protection of Personal Data, prepared and approved by the InterAmerican Juridical Committee (CJI) and adopted by the General Assembly in 2021, highlighting the importance of having principles that result from a consultative process and aim to establish guidelines that strike a balance between the effective protection of personal data and the free flow of personal data across national borders.

With this presentation, the DIL had the opportunity to showcase one of the OAS´ latest soft law instruments before the Advisory Committee as well as to share its perspective and experience as a regional Organization, as a first step towards closer inter-regional cooperation and to consolidate the DIL´s ability to provide state-of-the-art support for OAS Members States that wish to strengthen or modernize their legal frameworks regarding the protection of personal data.

The Committee members expressed great interest in having more OAS Member States acceding to Convention 108. As of this date, Uruguay, Mexico and Argentina have done so. The Committee further laid the groundwork for working closely with the CJI in the development of guidelines for the protection of neuro data.

Convention 108, adopted in 1981, is the only binding international instrument on data protection. Subsequently, on 10 October 2018, the European Council adopted an Additional Protocol (Convention 108+) in order to strengthen the protection of personal data considering the diversification, increase and globalization of data processing activities and the flow of information.

Convention 108 is open for accession by States which are not members of the Council of Europe.

» To learn more about the DIL, click here.

» To learn more about the DIL’s work in protection of personal data, click here.

» To view the Updated Principles on Privacy and the Protection of Personal Data, click here.

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