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• International Standards on the Protection of Personal Data and Privacy: Joint
Proposal for a Draft of International Standards on the Protection of Privacy with
regard to the Processing of Personal Data (Madrid Resolution), 2009
• Recommendation of the OECD Council concerning Guidelines Governing the
Protection of Privacy and Transborder Flows of Personal Data, 2013
• Regulation (European Union) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the
Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the
processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and
repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation)
• Standards for Personal Data Protection for Ibero-American States, 28 adopted in
2017
• Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic
Processing of Personal Data (Convention 108+), Council of Europe, 2018
• Updated Principles on Privacy and Personal Data Protection, Organization of
American States (OAS), 2021 29
• Resolution entitled “Achieving global data protection standards: Principles to
ensure high levels of data protection and privacy worldwide”, GPA, 2023 30
37.
The main results of the comparative analysis are set out below.
First: as indicated in the table below, in its resolution 45/95 the General
Assembly does not mention the following principles relating to the processing
of personal data: legitimacy, transparency, demonstrated responsibility and
confidentiality.
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29
30
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Document adopted at the fifteenth Ibero-American Data Protection Meeting of the IberoAmerican Data Protection Network, held in Santiago on 22 June 2017.
The Principles were adopted by the Inter-American Juridical Committee and approved by the
General Assembly of the Organization of American States in 2021.
See footnote 9.
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