These Tables are by Graham Greenleaf, Professor of Law & Information Systems, University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney). They are the 7th edition of the Tables published by Privacy Laws & Business International Report since 2011. They are based on information known as at 31 January 2021.

The update to the Tables is explained and analysed in my articles published in Privacy Laws & Business International Report, issues 169 and 170. Please cite to those versions if possible. Further background is in my ‘Sheherezade and the 101 data privacy laws: Origins, significance and global trajectories’, (2014) 23(1) Journal of Law, Information & Science.

Copies of most legislation listed in this Table are in the National Data Privacy Legislation database, part of the free access Global Data Protection, Privacy & Surveillance Law Library, located on the World Legal Information Institute (WorldLII).

The data in the Tables and articles are as known to the author at 31 January 2021.

This edition of these Tables has benefitted from information and advice received and appreciated greatly, from the following: David Banisar (ARTICLE 19) – all countries; Prof. David Erdos (Faculty of Law, Cambridge University) – EU countries; Prof. Bertil Cottier (Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugarno) – African and francophone countries; Clarisse Girot (ABLI) – Asian and European countries; Isabel Ornelas & Madalena Gomes Cruz (Vieira de Almeida, Lisbon) – Portuguesespeaking countries; Hannah McCausland (UK ICO) – European and Commonwealth countries; Eduardo Bertoni (Instituto Interamericano de Derechos Humanos) and (Pablo Palazzi (Allende & Brea, Argentina) – Latin American countries; Alexander McD White (Bermuda Privacy Commissioner) – Caribbean countries; Sophie Kwasny (Council of Europe) – Convention 108/108+ countries; Pam Dixon (World Privacy Forum), ICO (UK) International Team and Laura Linkomies (Privacy Laws & Business) – all countries.

All errors and omissions remain the responsibility of the author. See previous editions of these Tables for additional acknowledgments.