Short Q & A: OECD

Hello law professionals and legal knowledge seekers. In this blog I am sharing some short Q & A about FIPPS and OECD. Both of them are the base of data protection law and information technology law across the globe.

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Q. Enlist important FIPPS?

Ans. The FIPPS are as follows:

1. There must be no personal-data record-keeping systems whose very existence is secret.

2. There must be a way for an individual, to find out what information about him is in a record and how it is used.

3. There must be a way for an individual to prevent information about him obtained for one purpose from being used or made available for other purposes without his consent.

4. There must be a way for an individual to correct or amend a record of identifiable information about him.

Q. What is OECD?

Ans. Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development who followed FIPPS in 1980s to create Privacy guidelines known as OECD guidelines.

Q. What is intention of OECD guidelines?

Ans. The OECD Guidelines were significantly inspired by the FIPPS and were intended to provide a framework for harmonising national privacy legislations amongst OECD members, while upholding human rights, and preventing interruptions in international flows of data.

Q. What is the base of data protection framework around the world?

Ans. The OECD guidelines are the base of any data protection framework around the world and are deemed to be the first internationally agreed upon statement of core information privacy principles.

Q. When did OECD guidelines updated?

Ans. OECD guidelines were updated in 2013 so that it handles the excessive use of personal data.

Q. What are the core privacy principles in 2013 OECD guidelines?

Ans. The 2013 OECD Guidelines keep the core privacy principles such as collection limitation, data quality and purpose specification etc. intact, several new elements to strengthen data safeguards have been introduced. These include: privacy management programs to enhance accountability of the data controller, data security breach notification which oblige data controllers to.

Q. What are the characteristics of Big Data?

Ans. Big Data is usually characterised by 3 Vs, namely 1) volume as in massive datasets, 2) velocity which relates to real time data, and 3) variety which relates to different sources of data.

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