North America’s “Generally Accepted Privacy Principles” establish an inadequate data protection regime.
There is a trend to equate “privacy” with “data protection” probably because many USA organisations like Google like to use the “p-word” quite a lot and there is a common desire to be “privacy friendly”. However, when you make this equation, it can be at the expense of ignoring many important data protection safeguards. The divergence between the concepts of “privacy” and “data protection” emerges by an analysis of some of the Generally Accepted Privacy Principles (GAPP), which fall a




