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Implementation: Communicating Interpretations
Developing Asia Pacific Standards in Case Noting
Blair StewartAssistant Commissioner
Office of the Privacy CommissionerNew Zealand
Interpreting Privacy Principles:Chaos or Consistency?
Symposium
Sydney, 17 May 2006
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Outline
• The topic: How can Privacy Commissioners communicate their interpretations of IPPs? What works? What is best practice? What does accountability require?
• What I hope to cover: Case notes, what we’ve got, where we might want to go
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What’s a case note?
“Any report outlining the outcome of an investigation, conciliation or determination of a complaint that is contained in a series of reports released by a privacy authority”
Source: Asia Pacific Privacy Authorities Forum, Statement of Common Administrative Practice on Case Note Citation, adopted 17 November 2005
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What’s in a case note?
• A label identifying the report within a series i.e. a citation allowing people to find the note and know where it’s from etc., may also say something about the case itself
• Some facts• Some instructive indication of the outcome of
the case e.g. on how investigated, mediated, resolved or law interpreted
Examples of variety:• Tailored anonymised notes e.g. NZPrivCmr• Summaries or headnotes of tribunal decisions e.g.
HKPrivCmrAAB• Full determinations e.g. PrivCmrACD
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What’s a case note?
“Any report outlining the outcome of an investigation, conciliation or determination of a complaint that is contained in a series of reports released by a privacy authority”
Source: Asia Pacific Privacy Authorities Forum, Statement of Common Administrative Practice on Case Note Citation, adopted 17 November 2005
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Case notes can go where judgments cannot …
Complaints closed – 100% No jurisdiction – 2%
Closed within jurisdiction – 98%
Provisional opinion – 23%
Settled: no final opinion – 5%
Final opinion – 19%
Settled: no provisional opinion – 74%
Total closed without final opinion – 78%
HRRT – 2% Typical breakdown of processing of complaints to NZPC: These figures are derived from an amalgamation of 2001/02 and 2004/05 figures, and rounded out
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Case notes can go where judgments cannot …
Complaints closed – 100% No jurisdiction – 2%
Closed within jurisdiction – 98%
Provisional opinion – 23%
Settled: no final opinion – 5%
Final opinion – 19%
Settled: no provisional opinion – 74%
Total closed without final opinion – 78%
HRRT – 2% A conciliated outcome is a key objective of the Privacy Commissioner complaints model: case notes are an innovative way to reveal and report interpretations adopted in that context
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1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
NZPrivCmr
PrivCmrA
HKPrivCmr
KRPIDMC
NSWPrivCmr VPrivCmr
NZ HRRT (On-line)
NZ HRRT Compilations
PrivCmrACD
HKPrivCmrAAB
PC of Canada
Timeline 1994 - 2006
Principal Asia Pacific Privacy Case Note Series
The steady advance of case notes in Asia Pacific region …
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APPA Forum has adopted a citation standard
Abbreviations adopted for APPA participants:• HKPrivCmr – Hong Kong Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data• KRPIDMC – Korean Personal Information Dispute Mediation
Committee• NSWPrivCmr - New South Wales Privacy Commissioner• NTICmr – Northern Territory Information Commissioner• NZPrivCmr - New Zealand Privacy Commissioner• PrivCmrA – Privacy Commissioner of Australia• VPrivCmr – Victorian Privacy Commissioner
Source: Asia Pacific Privacy Authorities Forum, Statement of Common Administrative Practice on Case Note Citation, 17 November 2005
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Case notes to date from APPA members
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VPrivCmr NSWPrivCmr KRPIDMC HKPrivCmr PrivCmrA NZPrivCmr
Casenotes to '06
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Canada has been active too
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VPrivCmr NSWPrivCmr KRPIDMC HKPrivCmr PrivCmrA NZPrivCmr PrivCmrC
Casenotes to 2006
Canada has not adopted a citation standard – which may diminish usefulness of rich vein of provincial material
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Some thoughts on moving forward
• Case notes have a critical place in reporting “real life” operation of privacy law: tribunal and court cases offer only a partial glimpse
• Asia Pacific has already laid critical foundations (body of case notes, citation system)
• Canadian material too valuable to ignore, accessible on-line but suffering on citation side
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Some ideas for action
• PCs should be encouraged to continue to produce case notes: the best encouragement may be for iPP project to put them to good use
• Canadians IPCs should be encouraged to reflect on citation practices
• The iPP project could assist commissioners by indicating gaps in coverage that might be filled by new case notes: this can contribute to selection practices
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… and may be quoted in an amusing case note