Global Tables of Data Privacy Laws and Bills (6th Ed January 2019)

Abstract

This 2019 6th edition of these Tables contains two parts:
- the Global Table of Countries with Data Privacy Laws (now 132 countries);
- the Global Table of Official Data Privacy Bills (now 27 countries).

These Tables are regarded as the authoritative periodic list of data privacy laws by many organisations across the world.

The data in the Tables is as known at 31 January 2019. The Tables were originally published in (2019) Supplement to 157 Privacy Laws & Business International Report (PLBIR)16 pgs. New editions are published approximately every two years.

The data is analysed in my articles ‘Global data privacy laws 2019: 132 national laws and many bills’ (2019) 157 PLBIR 14-18 https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract_id=3381593, ‘Global data privacy laws 2019: New eras for international agreements’ (2019) 157 PLBIR 19-20, and ‘Global data privacy 2019; DPAs, PEAs and their networks’ (2019) 158 PLBIR 11-14. (These articles will be available on SSRN shortly.)

Copies of all legislation listed in this Table are in the National Data Privacy Legislation database, or will be located there as updating resources permit, and are part of the free access Global Data Protection, Privacy & Surveillance Law Library, located on the World Legal Information Institute (WorldLII).

Keywords: data privsacy, data protection, privacy, laws, bills