In the current digital era, businesses are gathering and keeping enormous volumes of data on their clients, staff and operations. Data breaches and cyberattacks are more likely as data volume ...

In this new data protection column, we look at GDPR and how companies are meeting the challenge and what lies ahead for businesses built on data. Sixteen months ago, the European Parliament ...

The primary focus of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) framework is on protecting the rights of individuals to privacy, without compromising their personal data stored by state ...

In the past few years, many countries and states have enacted laws to protect individuals' privacy. These laws cover any information that may be obtained when someone participates or interacts with a ...

Data privacy challenges are garnering worldwide attention, with data positioned as the new oil. When reports and interviews around data privacy are covered by the New York Times, 60 Minutes, and CNN, ...

The European Union’s top court has handed down a couple of notable rulings today in the arena of data protection. One (Case C-300/21) deals with compensation for breaches of the bloc’s General Data ...

It was May 25 th, 2018, and the sun was certainly shining in many of the (then) 28 European Union member states. In the offices of many companies in (and often also outside) the EU, this was a day of ...

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 ...

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) mandates strict protocols for the reporting of data breaches in accordance with EU data protection rules. Organisations can be issued large monetary fines ...

EU privacy watchdog the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) has started examining whether the bloc's top institutions and agencies are effectively protecting citizens' personal data when using ...