Graham Greenleaf’s Global Table of Data Privacy Laws

Graham Greenleaf, Professor of Law & Information Systems, University of New South Wales

2 April 2012

Please see the current version of these Tables (to Februrary 2012), listing 89 countries with data privacy law, and the accompanying article,  'Global Data Privacy Laws: 89 Countries, and Accelerating', Privacy Laws & Business International Report, Issue 115, Special Supplement, February 2012 at
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/SSRN_ID2000034_code1175289.pdf?abstractid=2000034&mirid=4> 

Changes since February 2012:

• Ghana has enacted a new data privacy law
• Greenland uses the old Danish data protection law and should be added to the Table

The total countries with data prvacy laws as at 2 April 2012 is therefore 91.

To advise of additions or corrections to  this  Table please contact me at <graham@austlii.edu.au>