Principles. There is a restriction for Individuals: “Individuals will often collect,
hold and use personal information for personal, family or household purposes.
For example, they often keep address books and phone lists or prepare family
newsletters. The Framework is not intended to apply to such personal, family or
household activities.”
• Article 3 of the ECOWAS Supplementary Act states that “collection, processing,
transmission, storage, and use of personal data by any individual, by government,
local authorities, and public or private legal entities” shall be subject to the
Supplementary Act. There are no exclusions except the one in article 4, which
only relates to individuals.
1.3 Supervising and Controlling Entities
The following supervising and/or controlling entities can be identified:
On UN Level
• Human Rights Council (UNHRC): The council is an intergovernmental body
within the United Nations system made up of 47 member states responsible for
the promotion and protection of all human rights around the globe. The UNHRC
is the legal successor to the UN Commission on Human Rights.
19
• The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
(OHCHR) is a United Nations agency that works to promote and protect the
human rights that are granted by the Universal Declaration of the Human
Rights.
20 Current commissioner is Prince Zeid bin Ra’ad.
21
• All bodies rather enforce the right to privacy as a human right, but the processing
of personal data as part of data protection law.
• The member states of the ICCPR are obliged to guarantee protective measures for
assertion. They are responsible to enforce the treaties’ rights within their own
legal framework.
22 The Human Rights Committee supervises the ICCPR.
23
• The UNHCR Data Protection Policy includes a sectorial supervision regime,
which is regulated in section 7 of the policy.
19 See United Nations Human Rights Council, http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/Pages/
AboutCouncil.aspx.
20 See United Nations Human Rights Council, http://www.ohchr.org/EN/AboutUs/Pages/
WhoWeAre.aspx.
21 See United Nations Human Rights Council, http://www.ohchr.org/EN/AboutUs/Pages/
HighCommissioner.aspx (accessed 20 February 2017).
22 ICCPR, article 2.
23 Yilma (2018), p. 14.
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hold and use personal information for personal, family or household purposes.
For example, they often keep address books and phone lists or prepare family
newsletters. The Framework is not intended to apply to such personal, family or
household activities.”
• Article 3 of the ECOWAS Supplementary Act states that “collection, processing,
transmission, storage, and use of personal data by any individual, by government,
local authorities, and public or private legal entities” shall be subject to the
Supplementary Act. There are no exclusions except the one in article 4, which
only relates to individuals.
1.3 Supervising and Controlling Entities
The following supervising and/or controlling entities can be identified:
On UN Level
• Human Rights Council (UNHRC): The council is an intergovernmental body
within the United Nations system made up of 47 member states responsible for
the promotion and protection of all human rights around the globe. The UNHRC
is the legal successor to the UN Commission on Human Rights.
19
• The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
(OHCHR) is a United Nations agency that works to promote and protect the
human rights that are granted by the Universal Declaration of the Human
Rights.
20 Current commissioner is Prince Zeid bin Ra’ad.
21
• All bodies rather enforce the right to privacy as a human right, but the processing
of personal data as part of data protection law.
• The member states of the ICCPR are obliged to guarantee protective measures for
assertion. They are responsible to enforce the treaties’ rights within their own
legal framework.
22 The Human Rights Committee supervises the ICCPR.
23
• The UNHCR Data Protection Policy includes a sectorial supervision regime,
which is regulated in section 7 of the policy.
19 See United Nations Human Rights Council, http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/Pages/
AboutCouncil.aspx.
20 See United Nations Human Rights Council, http://www.ohchr.org/EN/AboutUs/Pages/
WhoWeAre.aspx.
21 See United Nations Human Rights Council, http://www.ohchr.org/EN/AboutUs/Pages/
HighCommissioner.aspx (accessed 20 February 2017).
22 ICCPR, article 2.
23 Yilma (2018), p. 14.
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