Following the enactment of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on 25 May 2018, there has been a marked shift in the way organisations treat the risk to personal data. In the days before ...

The Data Protection Act (DPA) 2018 is the UK’s data protection law. It brings the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) into the UK’s legal system and defines how personal data should be ...

Recently, the UK government made several announcements regarding its post-Brexit global data plans, with the overarching aim of gaining maximal economic and societal benefits from the free flow of ...

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 ...

The UK has left the European Union. It’s left the single market. And now it wants to leave behind the rules that require companies protect your personal data. “The GDPR is by no means perfect, and ...

The United Kingdom has issued the first GDPR notice in relation to the Facebook data scandal which saw the data of up to 87 million users harvested and processed without their consent. While the UK's ...

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Many companies are falling short of data protection obligations under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). DLA Piper's Data Privacy Scorebox shows that, on ...

A Facebook face recognition notification slip-up hints at how risky the company’s approach to compliance with a tough new European data protection standard could turn out to be. On Friday a Metro ...