Summary

The report is divided into two parts: an executive summary of activities undertaken during 2016-17 is the first, introductory part of the report. The second and main part is the interim report on the work of the Big Data Open Data Taskforce established by the Special Rapporteur on Privacy.

Pending feedback during the consultation period to March 2018 and the results of on-going investigations and letters of allegation to Governments, the Special Rapporteur will publish a more final version of this report in or after 2018.

This final report is now available and published as A/73/438.