Global data privacy 2021: DPAs joining networks is the rule
Graham Greenleaf analyses the developments since 2019 – where new DPAs have been appointed, and which DPA networks are expanding.
The networks of Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) and (as they are sometimes called) Privacy Enforcement Agencies (PEAs) have continued to expand their membership, and some of their activities, in 2019-20, despite the pandemic in 2020 calling a halt to international in-person meetings. This article analyses the details of those networks set out in the 2021 Global Tables of Data Privacy Laws (included in Privacy Laws & Business International, Issue 169), and completes the analyses started in that issue.(1) The last two columns of that Table identify the DPA/PEA, where one exists (and whether yet appointed), in each of the 145 countries with data privacy laws,(2) and each network of which they are a member or observer.
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