Congress reached a major milestone in the effort to create a comprehensive federal data privacy law last week when House Energy and Commerce Chair Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ), ranking member Rep. Cathy ...

Organizations of all sizes collect and store more information than ever before, and personal information is as, or more ...

Botswana's newly enacted Data Protection Act provides a robust framework for safeguarding personal data. This statement was originally published on misa.org on 17 January 2025. The Act replaces the ...

We are living in a time when personal dignity is just a click away from violation. The ease with which deepfakes, intimate photos, and AI-generated information can be produced, disseminated, and used ...

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 ...

The Data Protection Act (DPA) 2018 is the UK’s data protection law. It brings the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) into the UK’s legal system and defines how personal data should be ...

The EU has the strongest data protection rules in the world. Protection of personal data is considered a fundamental right in the EU. On this page Personal data in the digital age Data protection as a ...

According to the Commission, the Data Act aims to clarify “who can create value from data and under what conditions.” The act is intended to help break down data silos, create a single market for data ...

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a regulation of the European Union (EU) that became effective on May 25, 2018. It strengthens and builds on the EU's current data protection framework, ...

The government on Friday notified the much-awaited rules for the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, which is the country’s first exclusive law for effectively processing individuals’ ...