The European data protection supervisor, Peter Hustinx, has determined that current EU legislation on the retention of personal data contradicts rights to privacy and data protection. EURACTIV France ...

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, ...

The federal government has launched the Nigerian Data Protection Act General Application and Implementation Directive (NDP ACT-GAID) in its quest towards safeguarding the fundamental rights and ...

The European General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR), the most significant change to data protection in three decades, becomes effective on May 25, 2018. The regulation intends to strengthen ...

Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. Amy is an ACA and the CEO and founder of ...

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 ...

Where data centres located in the EEA are utilised for cloud computing services, the customers, and in some circumstances even cloud service providers, could become subject to the EU Data Protection ...

Comprehensive data protection laws are essential for protecting human rights – most obviously, the right to privacy, but also many related freedoms that depend on our ability to make choices about how ...

In the 2013 landmark case between Google Spain v Marcio C. Gonzalez, in an instant Google – the world’s largest and most advanced search engine – had to comply with a European Union (EU) court outcome ...