How did it come about? In January 2012, the European Commission set out plans for data protection reform across the European Union in order to make Europe 'fit for the digital age'. Almost four years ...

Most people associate data protection with legislation, most recently the Data Protection Act 1998 and the General Data Protection Regulation 2016 (GDPR). However, it should be appreciated that this ...

What is European Charter of Fundamental Rights? Before we understand what GDPR is, we need to know that the European Union guarantees the same fundamental data protection to all residents of EU – be ...

It's the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), an EU-wide set of rules governing data privacy in the age of the internet. It came into effect in May last year, and will remain part of UK law ...

The EU general data protection regulation (GDPR) is the strongest privacy and security law in the world. This regulation updated and modernised the principles of the 1995 data protection directive. It ...

Designed to update the privacy rights of internet users and ensure organisations are transparent and responsible when handling the personal information of customers and clients, the European Union's ...

With the third anniversary of GDPR and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) having recently arrived, it’s a good time to consider the progress made around ...

If the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) managed to do one thing, it was to capture our attention. It threatened to bring chaos and devastation, but as the day arrived, the wave didn’t crash.

In this article, we shall discuss 18 Countries with GDPR-like data privacy laws. To skip our detailed analysis of the economic implications of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the ...