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The Global Data Protection, Privacy & Surveillance Law Library |
Offer to publish decisions of data protection and privacy authorities
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 UNSW Australia and the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), operates the World Legal Information Institute (WorldLII) in conjunction with other free-access Legal Information Institutes (LIIs) around the world.
The The Global Data Protection, Privacy & Surveillance Law Library is part of WorldLII. 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, Privacy Enforcement Authorities, 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 longer run it may assist the development of an international privacy jurisprudence.
Offer to host decisions by all privacy authorities
AustLII therefore offers to all Data Protection Authorities, Privacy Enforcement Authorities, similar privacy bodies, and specialist privacy 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 that cooperates with WorldLII 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, and the results of 'Commissioner-initiated investigations' (also called 'own motion' or 'suo moto' decisions).
- Decisions may be in any language, and in multiple languages.
- This includes publication of back-sets of decisions, subject to resources. In some cases it may be preferable to start with current decisions, and add back-sets at a later time.
- For rapid and cost-efficient updating, 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.
- Databases of authorisations or similar decisions may also be included, as well as (where appropriate) databases of procedures or rules.
- There is no charge to privacy and data protection authorities for this service, although contributions are welcome.
For further discussion, please contact General Editor of the Library, Professor Graham Greenleaf at <mailto:graham@austlii.edu.au>. Technical issues concerning provision of data should be discussed with AustLII/WorldLII Executive Director, Dr Philip Chung <mailto:philip@austlii.edu.au>.
Development of the Library has previously been assisted by funding from an Australian Research Council project, 'Interpreting Privacy Principles' and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner, New Zealand resulting from surplus funds following an APEC workshop in 2013. The Library is being expanded in 2019 under a $42,224 grant under the 2019 UNSW Research Infrastructure Scheme (RIS).
AustLII/WorldLII Co-Directors, 8 December 2018