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 ...

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 Union Government notified large parts of the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023, on Friday (November 14, 2025), addressing the need for a law to protect the data privacy of Indian ...

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The Digital Personal Data Protection Rules (DPDP), 2025 were notified this week, kicking off the formation of the Data Protection Board of India (DPBI), and the legal framework for safeguarding the ...

Virginia is for lovers – and privacy lawyers. Although California has attracted most of the attention as the first US state to pass and enact comprehensive data privacy legislation, other states, ...

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 ...

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 Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) on November 14 released the rules for the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, effectively operationalising India’s first ...

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