Peter Fleischer, Google’s Global Privacy Counsel, has posted the anticipated announcement on Google’s Public Policy Blog: The problem of international data flow and privacy is not new. Potential problems were identified as early as the 1980s. At that time, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) established the first “fair information principles.” Twenty years [...]

Google, increasingly under fire for its extensive collecting of user information is calling today for international privacy laws. The proposal follows the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Privacy Framework, which has been endorsed by many of the APEC nations, including Australia and Hong Kong, but not all. China, for instance, does not endorse it, Fleischer said. [...]