Abstract
Data breach notification and disclosure laws are emerging around the globe. The following article and table examine the specifics of data breach notification frameworks in multiple jurisdictions. Over the year of 2008, Alana Maurushat of the Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre, with research assistance from David Vaile and student interns Renee Watts, Nathalie Pala, Michael Whitbread, Eugenie Kyung-Eun Hwang and David Chau, compiled the data. The table represents a detailed survey of data breach disclosure requirements in 25 countries, conducted by surveying those current or proposed statutory or similar instruments setting out the nature and conditions of such requirements to give notice. The Centre hopes that the table will be useful to compare and contrast elements of data breach notification schemes. The researchers at the CLPC will research the effectiveness of such schemes in future projects.
Disciplines
Law
Date of this Version
April 2009
Recommended Citation
Alana Maurushat, "Data Breach Notification Law Across the World from California to Australia" (April 2009). University of New South Wales Faculty of Law Research Series 2009. Working Paper 11.
http://law.bepress.com/unswwps-flrps09/art11
Comments
This article was originally published in Privacy Law and Business International (February, 2009). This paper may also be referenced as [2009] UNSWLRS 11.