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 ...

Information commissioner Elizabeth Denham has welcomed the UK’s Data Protection Act 2018, which has been given Royal Assent after nearly a year of debate and consultation to provide a new privacy ...

An NHS Trust broke the law by sharing sensitive patient records with Google's DeepMind division, the UK's data watchdog has ruled. The long-awaited decision falls in line with the conclusion drawn by ...

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 ...

Sir: In a significant stride towards safeguarding individual privacy, the Nigerian Data Protection Act (2023), was signed into law by President Bola Tinubu on June 12. This legislation builds upon the ...

The government has indicated it will not make any changes to the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act of 2023. An official source stated on Friday that the government plans to issue a detailed ...

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 ...

Video game trade association TIGA has published a guide ahead of forthcoming changes UK data protection laws. Due to be implemented on May 25 this year, the General Data Protection Regulation will ...

The New York Child Data Protection Act, a landmark state law to protect children’s privacy online, officially went into effect on Friday. The new law (S.7695B/A.8149A), which was sponsored by State ...

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) recently initiated a new framework built around the idea of ‘consent as a live signal’ to operationalise the Digital Personal Data ...