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 ...

GDPR outlines six principles that organizations need to abide by. These principles aren't new - they were already outlined in the 1995 directive, but GDPR has revised them slightly. We delve into each ...

Data privacy and personal data breaches have been in the news a lot recently. Over the past few years, companies have been collecting and processing ever-increasing amounts of data about their ...

Many civil society organizations are unhappy about the EU Commission’s plans to reopen the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), claiming that the text should be considered a cornerstone of the ...

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a sweeping and stringent European Union (EU) wide legal framework for personal data privacy, became effective on May 25. Ready or not, this framework is ...

As the May 25 deadline for compliance with the EU’s updated privacy framework fast approaches Facebook is continuing to PR the changes it’s making to try to meet the new data protection standard — and ...

Many companies are falling short of data protection obligations under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). DLA Piper's Data Privacy Scorebox shows that, on ...

Data privacy and personal data breaches have been in the news a lot recently. Over the past few years, companies have been collecting and processing ever-increasing amounts of data about their ...