For 40 years, the Council of Europe Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data - Convention 108 – has been the only international legally binding ...

In May 2018, the European Union (EU) implemented the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a major component of EU privacy law. Privacy regulations like the GDPR ...

Europe’s data protection supervisors have warned that proposals by the European Commission to reform privacy law by narrowing the definition of personal data could erode privacy rights for European ...

Data sovereignty is becoming a central strategic priority for telecom operators, while increasingly shaping global regulatory ...

Japan's Cabinet on Tuesday approved a bill to revise the personal data protection law, easing restrictions on using individual inform ...

Children’s privacy is a unique legal area that generally applicable data protection laws cannot easily address. Children have significant economic power, but they require greater privacy protections ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jill Goldenziel writes & consults on security, law, & business risk. New amendments to China's Cybersecurity Law, designed to ...

According to a 2023 study led by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, social media platforms including Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, X (formerly Twitter) and YouTube collectively ...

More states are passing laws to protect information generated by a person's brain and nervous system as technology improves the ability to unlock the sensitive details of a person's health, mental ...

The National Commissioner of the Nigeria Data Protection Commission, Dr Vincent Olatunji, on Monday said ignorance and widespread distrust of regulators were major factors slowing compliance with ...

MILAN, April 14 (Reuters) - A Milan court on Tuesday accepted a class action brought by a consumer group against Meta ...