The phrase "privacy authority" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to the body of laws, regulations, and government agencies that oversee the privacy of individuals or companies. For example, "New data privacy regulations from the European Union's privacy authority have been put in place to protect user data."
On Tuesday, the president of Italy's privacy authority, Antonello Soro, warned against the growing pressure from police and national authorities all over the world to obtain citizens' private information.
This issue is in the spotlight, because France's data privacy authority has accelerated the demand, first made by European agencies last November, for Google to decouple links found to be in breach of European data protection law from individual name searches on Google.com, rather than just Google's indices that are targeted to Europe – Google.fr, Google.de and so on.
Section 5 of the FTC Act contains an exemption from the agency's privacy authority for common carriers that are subject to FCC jurisdiction.
But its preference for the Irish data protection commissioner to be its sole privacy authority could well be on borrowed time.
Adding insult to injury, due to broadband reclassification under Title II regulations last year, the FCC's proposed rules effectively strip online privacy authority away from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the leading agency that has blazed the trail on privacy for nearly three decades.
In doing so, the FCC also extended its privacy authority over the broadband companies.
This paper aims to contribute to the international data privacy discourse by analysing data privacy authorities'DPAs'As') prospects to influence the international data privacy agenda and cooperation.
But a spokesperson did not explain how its policy could simultaneously respect European law and be the target of censure from five European privacy authorities.
"We'd never attempt to do this if we didn't have the blessing of independent privacy authorities," said Mr. Sullivan of Expedia.
Both European privacy authorities and US legislators have demanded clarification from the company about the data protection implications of its Google Glass head-mounted system, which can take pictures and video without onlookers knowing.
Thus, the paper concludes that aspirations that the data privacy authorities may, in the words of Anne-Marie Slaughter, create 'a genuinely new set of possibilities' for a future governance of data privacy where deliberation takes over and eliminates the power disparities and national interests are likely to remain elusive at least in the nearest future.
