Joseph Cannataci, the special rapporteur on the right to privacy, recommended that United Nations member states ratify the data protection Convention 108+ without delay. In his annual report to the United Nations General Assembly, Cannataci wrote that member states “be encouraged to ratify data protection Convention 108+ using CETS223 and implement the principles contained there through domestic law without undue delay, paying particular attention to immediately implementing those provisions requiring safeguards for personal data collected for surveillance and other national security purposes.” He added there needs to be time to “ascertain the robustness and international effect of the GDPR and Convention 108+.”
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