The road to the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation has been a game of catch-up with legislation responding to shifts in the technological landscape. Sweden was the first country in ...

Any business or organisation which holds or uses personal data, which means virtually every business, is subject to data protection legislation, like the GDPR. The main pieces of legislation are the ...

If you do business with EU citizens, you must comply with General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), including the mandate in Article 27 requiring many non-EU companies to appoint a data protection ...

When the May 25 enforcement deadline for Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) rolls around, U.S. companies, organizations and institutions that target their products and services to ...

Combined, both laws represent an evolution of data protection law in the way that they give individuals greater control over their personal data and require organisations to demonstrate greater ...

Discover the 10 biggest data breach fines and settlements of 2025. Explore GDPR penalties, global privacy regulations, and ...

As we approach Data Privacy Day 2018, consider this question: how much risk do you believe theft or exposure of private data poses to human health, safety, or ...

At present all employers have to comply with the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) when conducting employee surveillance, as they will be gathering and using personal data about living, identifiable ...

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But it’s not just governments feeling anxious about data sovereignty, organizations across sectors including transportation, ...