The road to the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation has been a game of catch-up with legislation responding to shifts in the technological landscape. Sweden was the first country in ...

If you do business with EU citizens, you must comply with General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), including the mandate in Article 27 requiring many non-EU companies to appoint a data protection ...

On 19 November 2025, the European Commission published two proposed regulations as part of its Digital Package on Simplification: the Digital ...

Most people associate data protection with legislation, most recently the Data Protection Act 1998 and the General Data Protection Regulation 2016 (GDPR). However, it should be appreciated that this ...

Combined, both laws represent an evolution of data protection law in the way that they give individuals greater control over their personal data and require organisations to demonstrate greater ...

It's the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), an EU-wide set of rules governing data privacy in the age of the internet. It came into effect in May last year, and will remain part of UK law ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. With the third anniversary of GDPR and the California ...

Rights groups say digital-only record is leaking data and courting trouble Civil society groups are urging the UK's data ...

PayPal is once again under criticism. An expert report accuses the service of massive GDPR violations and data misuse for ...