Nations including the US, South Africa and the UAE have taken inspiration from the EU's General Data Protection Regulation in introducing new laws. But this is just the beginning, lawyers say. A ...

(a) Does national law make specific rules regarding the processing of personal data in compliance with a legal obligation? The Data Protection Act clarifies that the processing of criminal data is ...

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 ...

The application of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) across the EU on May 25, 2018, was a landmark occasion – with the legislation replacing often disjointed and outdated data protection ...

Four years after its enactment, Europe's seminal privacy bill has not created the uniform, EU-wide legal framework that was intended, lawyers say. Four years after its entry into force, lawyers and ...

As the first anniversary of the Europe Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) approaches, a senior lawyer at Microsoft has called for US Congress to adopt a parallel set of EU-style federal ...

Europe's landmark online privacy law, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), was hailed as progressive legislation that would finally penalize tech companies for collecting data from users in ...

It’s been slightly more than seven years since GDPR came into force - a key moment that reshaped how organisations approach data protection. We’ve seen UK businesses of all sizes refine their data ...

(c) What is the status of national pre-GDPR data protection law? Most of the relevant pre-GDPR legislation has been repealed in full; however, Law No. 506/2004 on the processing of personal data and ...