Australia Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim has said officials charged with developing a privacy policy for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) are planning a “stocktake” of the APEC Privacy Framework, Bloomberg BNA reports. Pilgrim also said APEC’s Data Privacy Subgroup will work with the EU to map the APEC’s Cross Border Privacy Rules system with the EU binding corporate rules system. “The idea there is to see if they can identify any gaps for the purposes of possible future interoperability between the systems,” Pilgrim said, adding, “The next step is to sit down and identify where are the similarities and where are the gaps if we want to try to move to interoperability.”
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