Calif. Privacy Agency Inks Collaboration Agreement with UK's ICO
California and UK privacy regulators announced a formal cooperation pact Tuesday. The California Privacy Protection Agency signed a declaration of cooperation with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the CPPA said.
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The agreement lets regulators enjoy joint research and education relating to new technologies and data protection issues, share best practices, knowledge and investigative methods, convene meetings between their staffs, and share relevant experiences and develop appropriate collaboration mechanisms, the CPPA said.
ICO Commissioner John Edwards and Michael Macko, the CPPA’s head of enforcement, signed it.
“This declaration of cooperation formalises the existing and ongoing collaboration between my office and CPPA,” said Edwards.
“By partnering with the UK ICO, we can deepen our knowledge base and leverage best practices from other regulators whose citizens face many of the same privacy harms that Californians have,” said CPPA Executive Director Tom Kemp.
The CPPA previously announced partnerships with French and South Korean privacy regulators (see 2406250044). Also, the CPPA and other state enforcers recently announced a consortium of privacy regulators (see 2504160037).