Act 2025 makes major changes to UK data protection law, including the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR).

Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands (“BVI”) and the Cayman Islands have each introduced data protection regimes in recent years which align with global data protection standards. It is therefore ...

On May 25, 2018, years of preparation ended. Across Europe, long-planned data protection reforms started to be enforced. The mutually agreed General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has now been in ...

The UK’s Data Use and Access Bill has become law, with the government claiming it will “save working people money and time” while injecting £10bn into the British economy over the next decade. The ...

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a regulation of the European Union (EU) that became effective on May 25, 2018. It strengthens and builds on the EU's current data protection framework, ...

GDPR is a regulation that requires businesses to protect the personal data and privacy of EU citizens for transactions that occur within EU member states. And non-compliance could cost companies ...

The Data Protection and Digital Information (DPDI) Bill is the first major piece of data protection legislation since the UK left the European Union (EU) four years ago. Instead of completely ...

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The UK’s data protection regulator hasn’t done enough to stop the government from disregarding fundamental privacy rights during the pandemic, a cross-party group of 20 opposition MPs has said. The ...

Rather than a comprehensive legal protection for personal data, the United States has only a patchwork of sector-specific laws that fail to adequately protect data. Congress should create a single ...

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 ...

At the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union (GSC) we are strongly committed to protecting the personal data of all individuals who come in contact with us. For the EU at large, the ...