U.K. Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham and Privacy Commissioner of Canada Daniel Therrien co-chaired the Common Thread Network’s Annual General Meeting in Marrakech, Morocco on 18 Oct., where they also announced the group's new website, the U.K. Information Commissioner's Office said in a statement. Established in 2014, the Common Thread Network is comprised of 20 data protection leaders from across the globe who work to "further a common approach to respecting citizens’ privacy, to promote and build capacity in the sharing of knowledge and good practices for effective data protection," the report states. "The new website is one among many features which the Common Thread Network intends to use to foster a common approach and create synergies among commonwealth nations to uphold individuals’ privacy and data protection rights." 
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