The APEC Framework, published by the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, is a framework to protect privacy within and beyond economies and to enable regional transfers of personal information benefits consumers, businesses, and governments. This framework is used as a basis for the APEC Cross-Border Privacy Rules (CBPR) System.
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