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Table 5
Requirements for supervisory or personal data protection authorities explicitly mentioned in
international documents
In view of the results of this analysis, the proposed updated text incorporates
the topics not currently addressed in General Assembly resolution 45/95, in order to
ensure that it is complete and sufficient to respond to current needs, so as to enable
the proper processing of personal data.
In the light of the foregoing, it is proposed that the General Assembly of the
United Nations adopt the following text amending its resolution 45/95 of
14 December 1990:
Proposal to amend United Nations General Assembly resolution 45/95 of
14 December 1990
Guidelines for the processing of personal data
The procedures for implementing regulations concerning the processing of
personal data are left to the initiative of each State, subject to the following
orientations:
A. Principles concerning the minimum guarantees that should be provided
in national law to ensure the proper processing of personal data
1.
Principle of lawfulness and fairness
The collection, use, circulation and processing of personal data, and any other
activity involving personal data, must be carried out in accordance with the laws
of each country and for lawful purposes.
Information about persons (personal data) must not be collected or processed in
unfair, deceptive, unlawful or fraudulent ways, nor should it be used for ends
contrary to human dignity or to the purposes and principles of the Charter of the
United Nations.
2.
Principle of data accuracy or quality
Personal data must be reliable, complete, accurate, timely, verifiable and
relevant to the purpose of the processing, and they must be updated whenever
necessary, either unprompted – by the controller or processor – or at the request
of the data subject. Data that are partial, incomplete, fractured or misleading
must not be processed.
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