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Erklärung der 22. Internationalen Datenschutzkonferenz vom 29. September 2000:
VENICE DECLARATION
The data protection commissioners from the countries
convened in Venice on the occasion of the 22nd International Conference on Privacy and Personal Data Protection
agree on the need for reaffirming common data protection
principles and standards in the face of the increasingly
pervasive data processing technologies, the growing number of users of such technologies and the intensification of
data exchanges worldwide.
Many international instruments are already available in
this sector: from OECD Privacy Guidelines up to Council
of Europe Convention no. 108, EU directives, resolutions
and recommendations from international organizations.
These instruments already represent the significant
core of reference principles supported by wideranging
consensus; they are the basis of a common exercise with
a view to securing their worldwide application taking due
account of the many technological and social changes.
In the light of the recognition of privacy as a fundamental
personal right and as a constitutive element of citizens’
freedom, our work should aim at a global recognition of
guidelines for the processing of personal data
– reaffirming the binding nature of these principles,
with particular regard to the purposes of data collection, the need for fair, transparent processing operations (especially in respect of the socalled invisible
processing operations), proportionality, quality of
data, time for which the data can be kept, access and
the other data subjects’ rights;
– providing data subjects with more effective protection
via the independent supervision of processing operations and the availability of user-friendly remedies;
– strengthening the safeguards applying to the processing
of certain categories of data such as genetic data or data
related to the various types of electronic surveillance.
This would allow citizens worldwide to attain an adequate, more widely shared level of protection regardless
of the place where the processing is performed and irrespective of the instruments used for implementing protection in national and international fora.
Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners will work
with others to elaborate and implement the globally recognised principles.