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Links to Privacy Resources

Australia & New Zealand

Attorney-General's Department's Privacy Impact Checklist - Australia (pdf)

Australian Privacy Foundation (APF)

New Zealand Privacy Impact Assessment Handbook

Office of the (Australian) Federal Privacy Commissioner

Office of the Victorian Privacy Commissioner

Office of the New Zealand Privacy Commissioner

PIAs in an Australian Context by Roger Clarke, Dec 2007

Privacy Impact Assessments for Australian Government & ACT Government agencies

Privacy NSW (Office of the NSW Privacy Commissioner)

Europe

Commission proposes a comprehensive reform of the data protection rules 

Directive EC95/46/EC of the European Parliament and Council on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data ... and Proposed Updates to the Directive (January 2012)

European Commission: Data Protection

European Council: Data Protection

European Data Protection Supervisor

European Privacy Institute

HIDE's mission is to set up a platform devoted to ethical and privacy issues of biometrics and personal detection technologies which addresses transnational (European) and international problems

Irish Council for Bioethics: Enhancing Security or Invading Privacy (December 2008)

Privacy International

RISE Project - Rising Pan-European and International Awareness of Biometrics and Security Ethics (RISE)

STORK Project - The aim of the STORK project is to establish a European eID Interoperability Platform that will allow citizens to establish new e-relations across borders, just by presenting their national eID

TeleTrusT White Paper on Data Protection (in German), 2008

The Dutch Privacy Page

UK Data Protection Act 1998

UK Information Commissioner's Office (ico.)

USA

Biometrics & Privacy: Building a Conceptual Foundation (Sept 2006, NSTC)

Privacy Technology Implementation Guide (PTIG) (August 2007, Dept of Homeland Security)

Other

Electronic Privacy Information Center

Privacy and Human Rights

Privacy.org

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