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The Republic of Turkey, a candidate for European Union membership, has adopted the Law on The Protection of Personal Data on 24 March 2016 in compliance with the EU acquis. [141] China's 2021 Personal Information Protection Law is the country's first comprehensive law on personal data rights and is modeled after the GDPR. [142]: 131
Personal data can only be processed for specified explicit and legitimate purposes and may not be processed further in a way incompatible with those purposes. (art. 6 b) The personal data must have protection from misuse and respect for the "certain rights of the data owners which are guaranteed by EU law". [9]
The Convention for the Protection of Individuals with Regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data aka Convention 108 is a 1981 Council of Europe treaty that protects the right to privacy of individuals, taking account of the increasing flow across frontiers of personal data undergoing automatic processing.
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.
Directive 2002/58/processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector European Union directive Made by European Parliament & Council Made under Art. 95 Journal reference L201, 2002-07-31, pp. 37 – 47 History Date made 2002-07-12 Entry into force 2002-07-31 Implementation date 2003-10-31 Preparative texts EESC opinion C123, 2001-01-24, p. 53 EP ...
While Switzerland is not a member of the European Union (EU) or of the European Economic Area (EEA), it has partially implemented the EU Directive on the protection of personal data in 2006 by acceding to the STE 108 agreement of the Council of Europe and a corresponding amendment of the federal Data Protection Act. However, Swiss law imposes ...