Montreux Declaration : The protection of personal data and privacy in a globalised world, a universal right respecting diversities

Text of the ‘Montreux Declaration’ agreed by the International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners, meeting in Montreux on 14-16 September 2005. In the Declaration, the Commissioners appealed:

«a. to the United Nations to prepare a legal [sic] binding instrument which clearly sets out in detail the rights to data protection and privacy as enforceable human rights;

b. to every Government in the world to promote the adoption of legal instruments of data protection and privacy according to the basic principles of data protection and also to extend it to their mutual relations;

c. to the Council of Europe to invite, in accordance with article 123 of the Convention for the protection of individuals with regard to automatic processing of personal data, non-member-states of the Council of Europe which already have a [sic] data protection legislation to accede to this Convention and its additional Protocol.»

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