The strong emphasis on the accountability principle in some regulations allows organizations to resolve complaints or disputes related to the data protection (or data privacy) provisions through alternate dispute-resolution mechanisms, such as conciliation, negotiation or mediation, or even arbitration. For instance, the Personal Data Protection Act 2012 of Singapore establishes the possibility that any complaint by an individual against an organization might be more appropriately resolved through mediation (Article 27). Resolving issues through alternative dispute-resolution mechanisms generally leads to much faster resolutions, with less expense and more goodwill than any other mechanism. This is the approach of the Dutch data protection authority in its report on the mediation concerning the delisting of search results by Google. Qian Li Loke, CIPP/A, CIPM, and Luis Alberto Montezuma, CIPP/C, CIPP/E, CIPP/US, CIPM, FIP, examine the merits of such an approach in this article for The Privacy Advisor. 
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