On 24 January and 8 April 2022, the procedure before the French Data Protection Authority (CNIL) was reformed with the aim notably to better respond to the growing number of complaints that the CNIL ...

The Hamburg data protection agency has banned Facebook from processing the additional WhatsApp user data that the tech giant is granting itself access to under a ...

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 ...

The Council, represented by the Polish presidency of the Council of the EU, and the European Parliament secured a provisional deal on a new law which will improve cooperation between national data ...

While businesses are not required to create a written policy or procedure for processing access requests, some businesses – particularly those that receive high volumes of such requests – choose to ...

New reference promotes data privacy rights and underscores the need for Palestinian data protection law. This statement was originally published on 7amleh.org on 13 June 2023. This reference was ...

New Delhi: The government has begun the groundwork for putting in place the procedure and modalities for appointing members to the new Data Protection Board, while the requisite software for a digital ...

Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has yet another Big Tech GDPR probe to add to its pile: The regulator said yesterday it has opened two investigations into video sharing platform TikTok. The ...

Also still outstanding is clarity on their role in the country’s digital identity system, and whether it is commercially ...

The right of access allows a data subject to inquire whether a data controller holds personal data on that data subject and, ...

UNHCR’s General Policy on Personal Data Protection and Privacy (GDPP) brings the Agency’s longstanding human rights-based approach to data protection and privacy ...