Cross-Border Privacy Enforcement Arrangement

Citation
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, Cross-Border Privacy Enforcement Arrangement (Nov. 2009).

Overview
CPEA is an arrangement where participating economies are expected to help each other with extraterritorial investigations and enforcement of domestic data privacy laws. It was endorsed by APEC Ministers in November 2009 and commenced on July 16, 2010. The operation is based on mutual agreements rather than legal obligations; whether to accept a request for assistance is within a participant's sole discretion. Even with such a non-binding approach, to date CPEA has only five participants: Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, New Zealand and the United States.