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International Privacy Law Library |
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Offer to publish decisions of Data Protection Authorities and Privacy Commissioners in WorldLII’s International Privacy Law Library
Background to the Library
The Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII), a not-for-profit and free-access joint initiative of the Faculties of Law at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) and the University of New South Wales (UNSW), operates the World Legal Information Institute (WorldLII) in conjunction with other free-access Legal Information Institutes (LIIs) around the world.
The International Privacy Law Library is part of WorldLII, and its development is funded in part by an Australian Research Council funded project, ‘Interpreting Privacy Principles’. One of the aims of the Library is to include in one searchable location the decisions of as many privacy authorities (Data Protection Authorities, Privacy Commissioners, Tribunals and the like) as possible, as well as key Court decisions on data protection where possible. This will enable better cross-jurisdictional location and comparison of decisions on similar privacy principles made in different jurisdictions. In the long run it may assist the development of an international privacy jurisprudence.
At present, the Library includes the decisions of 20 privacy authorities, from Australia, Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong and Korea, with Macau being added. These decisions are located on AustLII, CanLII, NZLII, BAILII, HKLII and AsianLII. About 8,500 such decisions are currently included, plus other Court decisions, law journal articles, law reform publications, legislation and international agreements concerning privacy.
Offer to host decisions by all privacy authorities
AustLII therefore offers to all Data Protection Authorities, Privacy Commissioners, and specialist Tribunals, to include databases of their decisions/case notes, in the Library, insofar as AustLII’s resources enable this. The databases of decisions/case notes will be hosted on WorldLII unless hosting on another national or regional LII is more appropriate and available.
We can clarify this offer further as follows:
- By ‘decisions’ we include reports on mediated settlements of individual complaints, as well as decisions including recommendations or orders.
- Decisions may be in any language, and in multiple languages.
- This includes publication of back-sets of decisions, subject to resources, but we prefer to start with current decisions. How quickly back-sets can be accommodated depends largely on the format(s) in which the documents are available.
- For rapid and cost-efficient inclusion, we prefer if decisions can be emailed to us, according to a simple protocol. If each decision can be emailed separately, its immediate loading into the Library can be automated. We can extract back-sets from websites where needed.
For further discussion, please contact AustLII/WorldLII Co-Director, Professor Graham Greenleaf at <mailto:graham@austlii.edu.au>. Technical issues concerning provision of data should be discussed with AustLII/WorldLII Executive Director, Philip Chung <mailto:philip@austlii.edu.au>.
If you wish to discuss the experience of a privacy authority that has included its decisions in the Library for some years, please contact Blair Stewart, Assistant Privacy Commissioner, New Zealand (Blair.Stewart [at] privacy.org.nz).
AustLII/WorldLII Co-Directors, 10 August 2009