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ABIN

Agência Brasileira de Informações (Brazilian Information Agency)

 

 

ABPD

Brazilian Association of Record Producers

 

 

ACA

Australian Communications Authority

 

 

ACT

Australian Capital Territory

 

 

ADA

Americans with Disabilities Act (United States)

 

 

AGC

Attorney-General's Chambers of Singapore

 

 

AMLC

Anti-Money Laundering Council (Philippines)

 

 

AMLO

Anti-Money Laundering Office (Thailand)

 

 

APADOR-CH

Association for the Defense of Human Rights in Romania – The Helsinki Committee (Romania)

 

 

APCAUCE

Asia Pacific Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-mail

 

 

APD

Agencia de Protección de Datos (Data Protection Agency, Spain)

 

 

APEC

Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation

 

 

API

Advance Passenger Information

 

 

APIS

Advanced Passenger Information System

 

 

APSIA

Public Sector Information Act (Slovenia)

 

 

ASEAN

Association of Southeast Asian Nations

 

 

ASIO

Australian Security Intelligence Organization (Australia)

 

 

ATCS

Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 (United Kingdom)

 

 

 

 

BDSG

Bundesdatenschutzgesetz, (Federal Data Protection Law, Germany)

 

 

BELPIC

Belgian Personal Identity Card

 

 

BfD

Bundesbeauftragter für den Datenschutz (Federal Data Protection Commissioner, Germany)

 

 

BND

Intelligence Service (Germany)

 

 

BPO

Business Process Outsourcing

 

 

BSA

Broadcasting Standards Authority (New Zealand)

 

 

BWIS

Bundesgesetz über Massnahmen zur Wahrung der inneren Sicherheit (Switzerland)

 

 

CADA

Commission for Access to Administrative Documents (Portugal)

 

 

CADA

Commission d'accès aux documents administratifs (Commission for Access to Administrative Documents, France)

 

 

CALEA

Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (United States)

 

 

CAN-SPAM Act

Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003 (United States)

 

 

CAPPS II

Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System (United States)

 

 

 

 

CBA

Credit Bureau Association (South Africa)

 

 

CBP

College Bescherming Persoonsgegevens (Data Protection Authority, Netherlands)

 

 

CBP

Department of Homeland Security's Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (United States)

 

 

CCA

Controller of Certifying Authorities (India)

 

 

CCA

Computer Crimes Act (Malaysia)

 

 

CCIC

Cyber Crime Investigation Cell (India)

 

 

CCRA

Canada Custom's and Revenue Agency

 

 

CCT

Convention collective de travail (Belgium)

 

 

CCTV

Closed Circuit Television

 

 

CEPIRS

Centrales Privadas de Información de Riesgo (credit reporting agencies in Peru)

 

 

CIA

Central Intelligence Agency (United States)

 

 

CMA

Communications and Multimedia Act (Malaysia)

 

 

CMA

Computer Misuse Act (Singapore)

 

 

CNCIS

Commission nationale de contrôle des interceptions de sécurité (National Commission for the Control of Security Interceptions, France)

 

 

CNDP

Commission nationale pour la protection des données (Data Protection Authority, Luxembourg)

 

 

CNIL

Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés (Data Protection Authority, France)

 

 

CNPD

Comissão Nacional de Protecção de Dados (National Data Protection Commission, Portugal).

 

 

CNPD

Commission nationale pour la protection des données (National Commission for the Protection of Data, Luxembourg)

 

 

CoE

Council of Europe

 

 

CONDUSEF

Comisión Nacional para la Protección y Defensa de los Usuarios de Servicios Financieros (National Commission for the Protection and Defense of Users of Financial Services, Mexico)

 

 

COSATU

Congress of South African Trade Unions

 

 

CPA

Consumer Protection Act (Slovenia)

 

 

CPNI

Customer Proprietary Network Information

 

 

CPR

Computerized Patient Record (France)

 

 

CRIA

 

 

 

CRS

Computerized Reservation System

 

 

CSP

Communications Service Provider

 

 

CTAG

Counter-Terrorism Action Group

 

 

DARPA

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (United States)

 

 

DAS

Administrative Department of Security (Colombia)

 

 

DHS

Department of Homeland Security (United States)

 

 

DIB

Datainspektionen (Data Inspection Board, Sweden)

 

 

DNPDP

Dirección Nacional de Protección de Datos Personales (National Directorate for the Protection of Personal Data, Argentina)

 

 

DOD

Department of Defense (United States)

 

 

DOJ

Department of Justice (United States)

 

 

DOT

Department of Transportation (United States)

 

 

DPA

Data Protection Authority

 

 

DPB

Data Protection Board (Finland)

 

 

DPC

Data Protection Commissioner (Ireland)

 

 

DPI

Data Protection Inspectorate (Estonia)

 

 

DPO

Data Protection Ombudsman (Finland)

 

 

DRE

Direct Recording Electronic

 

 

DSA

Digital Signatures Act (South Korea)

 

 

DSG

Datenschutzgesetz (Austria)

 

 

DVLA

Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (United Kingdom)

 

 

DVR

Datenverarbeitungsregister (Austria)

 

 

EC

European Community

 

 

ECHR

European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms

 

 

ECPA

Electronic Communications Privacy Act (United States)

 

 

ECTA

Electronic Communications and Transactions Act (South Africa)

 

 

ECtHR

European Court of Human Rights

 

 

EDSB

Federal Data Protection Commissioner (Switzerland)

 

 

EGAA

Electronic Government Activities Act (Malaysia)

 

 

EJPD

Departement of Justice and Police (Switzerland)

 

 

EKAM

Single Register Code Number (Greece)

 

 

ENUM

Electronic Numbering

 

 

EPIC

Electronic Privacy Information Center

 

 

EPID

Einheitlicher Personenidentifikator (unique ID number, Switzerland)

 

 

EPPA

Employee Polygraph Protection Act (United States)

 

 

ERP

Electronic Road Pricing (Singapore)

 

 

ETA

Electronic Transactions Act (Jordan, Singapore)

 

 

ETA

Electronic Transaction Act (Malaysia)

ETSI

European Telecommunication Standardization Institute

 

 

EU

European Union

 

 

EUROPOL

European Police Office

 

 

FAEC

Framework on Electronic Commerce (South Korea)

 

 

FATF

Financial Action Task Force

 

 

FBI

Federal Bureau of Investigation (United States)

 

 

FCC

Federal Communications Commission (United States)

 

 

FCRA

Fair Credit Reporting Act (United States)

 

 

FDA

Food and Drug Administration (United States)

 

 

Fedpol

Federal police (Switzerland)

 

 

FERPA

Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (United States)

 

 

FINEID

Finnish national ID card

 

 

FIPR

Foundation for Information Policy Research (United Kingdom)

 

 

FISA

Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (United States)

 

 

FISCR

Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review United States)

 

 

FLTAIPG

Ley Federal de Transparencia y Acceso a la Información Pública Gubernamental (Federal Law of Transparency and Access to Public Governmental Information, Mexico)

 

 

FNAEG

Fichier national automatisé des empreintes génétiques (National Computerized File of Genetic Data, France)

 

 

FOI

Freedom of Information

 

 

FOIA

Freedom of Information Act (United States)

 

 

FSB

Federal Security Service (Russia)

 

 

FTC

Federal Trade Commission (United States)

 

 

GAO

General Accounting Office (United States)

 

 

Garante

Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali (Supervisory Authority for Personal Data Protection, Italy)

 

 

GCHQ

Government Communications Headquarters (United Kingdom)

 

 

GCSB

Government Communications Security Bureau (United Kingdom)

 

 

GDS

Global Distribution System

 

 

 

 

GILC

Global Internet Liberty Campaign

 

 

GNP

Grand National Party (South Korea)

 

 

GNSO

Generic Names Supporting Organization

 

 

GPCL

General Principles of Criminal Law (China)

 

 

GPDel

Geschäftsprüfungsdelegation (Controlling Delegation of the Federal Parliament, Switzerland)

 

 

GPG

GNU Privacy Guard

 

 

gTLDs

generic Top Level Domains

 

 

GUID

Globally Unique Identifier

 

 

HMIS

Homeless Management Information Systems" (United States)

 

 

HRC

Human Rights Commission (South Africa)

 

 

HUD

Department of Housing and Urban Development (United States)

 

 

IATA

International Air Transportation Association

 

 

IC

Integrated circuit

 

 

ICAC

Independent Commission Against Corruption (Hong Kong)

 

 

ICANN

Internet Election for Assigned Names and Numbers

 

 

ICAO

International Civil Aviation Organization

 

 

ICCPR

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

 

 

ICESCR

International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

 

 

ICPs

Internet Content Providers

 

 

ICTs

Information and Communication Technologies

 

 

IDA

Info-Communications Development Authority (Singapore)

 

 

IDRBT

Institute of Development and Research in Banking Technology (India)

 

 

IETF

Internet Engineering Task Force

 

 

IFAI

Federal Institute of Access to Public Information (Mexico)

 

 

IFG

Informationsfreiheitsgesetz (Freedom of Information Act, Germany)

 

 

IFJ

International Federation of Journalists

 

 

ILETS

International Law Enforcement Telecommunications Seminar

 

 

ILO

International Labor Organization

 

 

IPRL

Internet Provider Responsibility Law of 2001 (Japan).

 

 

ISA

Internal Security Act (Malaysia)

 

 

ISO

International Standards Organization

 

 

ISP

Internet Service Provider

 

 

ITECC

Information Technology and E-Commerce Council

 

 

ITU

International Telecommunications Union

 

 

JIPDEC

Japan Information Processing Development Center

 

 

KGB

Komitet gosudarstvennoi bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security, Russia)

 

 

KISA

Korea Information Security Agency (South Korea)

 

 

LAD

Interior Ministry's Local Administration Department (Thailand)

 

 

LAN

Local Area Network

 

 

LDH

Ligue des droits de l'homme (Human Rights League, France)

 

 

LEN

Loi pour la confiance dans l'économie numérique (Digital Economy Law, France)

 

 

LFTAIPG

Federal Law of Transparency and Access to the Government Public Information (Mexico)

 

 

LGT

General Telecommunications Law (Spain)

 

 

LIPPI

Law on Information, Informatization and the Protection of Information (Russia)

 

 

LOPD

Ley Orgánica de Protección de Datos (Data Protection Act, Spain)

 

 

LORTAD

Ley Orgánica de Regulación del Tratamiento Automatizado de los Datos de carácter personal (Data Protection Act, Spain)

 

 

LPD

Loi fédérale sur la protection des données (Federal Act of Data Protection of 1992, Switzerland)

 

 

LPDUSF

Ley de Protección y Defensa Al Usuario de Servicios Financieros (Law for the Protection and Defense of the User of Financial Services, Mexico)

 

 

LPDP

Law for the Protection of Personal Data (Argentina)

 

 

LPPD

Law for the Protection of Personal Data

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LPPDP

Law on the Protection of Personal Data Protection (Poland)

 

 

LPPLSI

Loi sur la société de l'information (Law on the Information Society, France)

 

 

LSI

Law sur la société de l'information (Law on the Information Society, France)

 

 

LSQ

Loi sur la Sécurité Quotidienne (Daily Safety Law, France)

 

 

LSSI

Law of Information Society Services and Electronic Commerce (Spain)

 

 

MAS

Monetary Authority of Singapore

 

 

MATRIX

Multistate Anti-TerRrorism Information exchange (United States)

 

 

MCOCA

Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (India)

 

 

MDA

Media Development Authority (Singapore)

 

 

METI

Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (Japan)

 

 

MIA

Ministry of Internal Affairs (Ukraine)

 

 

MIB

Military Intelligence Bureau (Taiwan)

 

 

MIC

Ministry of Information and Communication (South Korea)

 

 

MITI

Ministry of International Trade and Industry (Japan)

 

 

MMS

Multimedia MeSsaging

 

 

MOGAHA

Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs (South Korea)

 

 

MOJ

Ministry of Justice (Japan)

 

 

MPT

Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (Japan)

 

 

MRTDs

Machine-Readable Travel Documents

 

 

MSZP

Magyar Szocialista Párt (Hungarian Socialist Party, Hungary)

 

 

MTS

Mobile Telesystems (Russia)

 

 

NAASCOM

National Association of Software and Service Companies (India)

 

 

NASA

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (United States)

 

 

NATO

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

 

 

NCIC

National Crime Information Center (United States)

NCNA

New China News Agency (Hong Kong)

 

 

NEIS

National Education Information System (South Korea)

 

 

NGO

Non-Governmental Organization

 

 

NHRC

National Human Rights Commission (South Korea)

 

 

NIA

National Intelligence Agency (South Africa, Thailand)

 

 

NIS

National Intelligence Service (South Korea)

 

 

NITC

National Information Technology Committee (Thailand)

 

 

NITDA

National Information Technology Development Agency (Nigeria)

 

 

NPPs

National Privacy Principles (Australia)

 

 

NRCC

National Regulatory Commission for Communication (Ukraine)

 

 

NSA

National Security Agency (United States)

 

 

NSEERS

National Security Entry-Exit Registration System (United States)

 

 

NSO

National SIGINT Organization (Netherlands)

 

 

NSP

National Security Police (Estonia)

 

 

NSS

National Security Service (Bulgaria, Hungary)

 

 

NSW

New South Wales

 

 

NZSIS

New Zealand Security Intelligence Service

 

 

OCC

Office of the Information Commissioner (Canada)

 

 

OECD

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

 

 

OIA

Operational Investigative Act (Ukraine)

 

 

OIC

Official Information Commission (Thailand)

 

 

OMB

Office of Management and Budget (United States)

 

 

ONS

Object Name Service

 

 

OPTA

Onafhankelijke Post en Telecommunicatie Autoriteit (Independent Post and Telecommunications Authority, Netherlands)

 

 

OSCE

Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe

 

 

PAIA

Promotion of Access to Information Act (South Africa)

 

 

PASOK

Panhellenic Socialist Movement (Greece)

 

 

PCO

Privacy Commissioner's Office (Hong Kong)

 

 

PDA

Personal Data Act (Norway, Sweden)

 

 

PDPA

Personal Data Protection Act (Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Netherlands, Slovenia)

 

 

PESEL

Electronic Census System (Poland)

 

 

PET

Privacy Enhancing Technology

 

 

PGP

Pretty Good Privacy

 

 

PIA

Privacy Impact Assessment

 

 

PIN

Personal Identification Number

 

 

PIPEDA

Personal Information and Electronic Documents Act (Canada)

 

 

PISA

Privacy Incorporated Software Agents

 

 

PISCES

Personal Identification Security Comparison System (Philippines)

 

 

PKI

Public Key Infrastructures

 

 

PNR

Passenger Name Record

 

 

POT

Norwegian Security Police

 

 

POTA

Prevention of Terrorism Act (India)

 

 

PPSN

Personal Public Service Number (Ireland)

 

 

PRC

People's Republic of China

 

 

PRODAT

Agencia para la Protección de Datos Personales (Agency for the Protection of Personal Data, Costa Rica)

 

 

PSB

The Public Service Broker (Ireland)

 

 

PSC

Public Services Card (Ireland)

 

 

PUL

Swedish Personuppgiftslag (Personal Data Act, Sweden)

 

 

RCMP

Royal Canadian Mounted Police

 

 

RBI

Royal Bank of India

 

 

RFID

Radio Frequency Identification

 

 

RIPA

Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (United Kingdom)

 

 

RRNS

Resident Registry Network System (Japan)

 

 

SAHA

South African History Archive

 

 

SAR

Special Administrative Region" (Hong Kong)

 

 

SARS

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

 

 

SBA

Singapore Broadcasting Authority

 

 

SBB

Swiss Federal Railway company

 

 

SBU

National Security Service (Ukraine)

 

 

SDF

Self Defense Forces (Japan)

 

 

SDV

National Security Service (Slovenia)

 

 

SEVIS

Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (United States)

 

 

SFV

Schweiz. Fussballverband SFV (Swiss Football Association SFV)

 

 

SID

Special Investigation Division (Thailand)

 

 

SIGINT

Signals Intelligence

 

 

SII

Integrated Informational System (Romania)

 

 

SIM

Subscriber Identity Module

 

 

SIN

Servicio de Inteligencia Nacional (National Intelligence Service, Peru)

 

 

SIS

Schengen Information System

 

 

SIS

Security Intelligence Service (New Zealand)

 

 

SISAA

Slovenian Intelligence and Security Agency Act

 

 

SISPA

Slovenian ISP Association

 

 

SND

Strategischer Nachrichtendienst (Strategic Intelligence Agency, Switzerland)

 

 

SORM

System of Operative Investigative Activities (Russia)

 

 

SOVA

Slovenian Intelligence and Security Agency

 

 

SPPO

Supreme Public Prosecutor's Office (South Korea)

 

 

SSU

Secret Service Unit (Ukraine)

 

 

StB

Czech Secret Police

 

 

STS

Le Service des Tâches Spéciales, Agency of Special Services (Switzerland)

 

 

TACD

Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue

 

 

TADA

Terrorists And Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act (India)

 

 

TAS

Telecommunications Authority of Singapore

 

 

TEL

Telecommunications Working Group

 

 

TFN

Tax File Number

 

 

TIA

Total Information Awareness (United States)

 

 

TOT

Telephone Organization of Thailand

 

 

TRIPs

Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights

 

 

TSA

Transportation Security Administration (United States)

 

 

TSPs

Telecommunication Service Providers

 

 

TWIC

Transportation Worker Identification Credential (United States)

 

 

UCE

Unsolicited Commercial E-mail

 

 

UK

United Kingdom

 

 

UN

United Nations

 

 

UNCITRAL

United Nations Commission on International Trade Law

 

 

UNESCO

United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organization

 

 

US-VISIT

United States Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology (United States)

 

 

WP29

Article 29 Working Group (European Commission)

 

 

WSIS

World Summit on the Information Society

 


Related:
About Privacy and Human Rights 2006
PHR2004 - Front Matter and Foreword
PHR2004 - Threats to Privacy
PHR2004 - Country Reports
Privacy International & EPIC Release 2004 Annual Global Privacy Study

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