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 ...

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 ...

January 12, 2023 - The year 2023 will go down in history as marking the beginning of a profound shift in the philosophy underlying data privacy laws in the United States. Historically data privacy ...

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 ...

The notion that “Data is the New Oil” has been around for quite some time. Generally credited to mathematician Clive Humby: Data is the new oil. Like oil, data is valuable, but if unrefined it cannot ...

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) implemented in May 2018 stands as a landmark regulatory framework aimed at protecting personal data and privacy for individuals within the European Union ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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