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 ...

Kai Keller (@kaimkeller) is a global leadership fellow at the World Economic Forum and leads the organization's work at the cross-section of innovation and financial stability. The Facebook-Cambridge ...

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force on 25 May 2018. This wide-ranging piece of legislation governs data protection requirements for any entity managing personal data across ...

Apple on February 21 withdrew its Advanced Data Protection feature from the United Kingdom following government demands for backdoor access to encrypted user data. The move came after UK officials ...

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 ...

The EU general data protection regulation (GDPR) is the strongest privacy and security law in the world. This regulation updated and modernised the principles of the 1995 data protection directive. It ...

Rather than comply with a UK order to make a backdoor into encrypted data, Apple has announced it will no longer offer Advanced Data Protection in that country. In 2024, the UK revamped its UK ...

Paul Gardner and Jas Purewal of interactive entertainment law firm Osborne Clarke discuss what data protection means for games businesses and what they need to do about it. This is the first of a two ...

In an effort to ensure that the voices of school officials and educational data-use proponents are heard in the increasingly cacophonous debate over student-data privacy, a coalition of more than 30 ...

Alexander Beck, Senior Data Protection Officer based in Copenhagen, on the particular role of data protection for UNHCR. Since 2015, UNHCR has its own Data Protection Policy. This is the first data ...

Resettlement relies on the processing of personal data of refugees. This personal data is collected and processed for the purposes of assessing an individual’s eligibility and suitability for ...