Benchmarks for Global Privacy Standards (November 2009)

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4. Proposed Benchmarks

• 4.1. Benchmark 1 – Comprehensive Coverage
• 4.2. Benchmark 2 – Usability
• 4.3. Benchmark 3 – Access to Dispute Resolution
• 4.4. Benchmark 4 – Meaningful Enforcement
• 4.5. Benchmark 5 – Civil Society Input
• 4.6. Benchmark 6 – Effective Oversight and Review
• 4.7. Benchmark 7 – International Cooperation

Global Privacy Standards should be assessed against the following Benchmarks. Use of the benchmarks will help to improve these initiatives and hopefully also to rationalise the large number of initiatives into fewer initiatives that have the potential to develop into an effective Global Privacy Standard.

The development of inadequate standards may be more dangerous than doing nothing, as they have the potential to mislead consumers about the level of privacy protection available, and they can be used to undermine current and future domestic initiatives – such as proposed privacy legislation in Asia, Africa, South America and the Pacific.[3]

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[3] Electronic Privacy Information Center and Privacy International , Privacy and Human Rights 2006, September 2006, <http://www.privacyinternational.org/article.shtml?cmd[347]=x-347-559458> [New edition available soon].

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