Kazakhstan: New user identification requirements “further regulate social relations”
11 January 2018 The President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, signed, on 28 December 2017, the Law of 28 December 2017 […]
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GDPR: What US Healthcare Entities Need to Know
Under what circumstances must a U.S. healthcare provider comply with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, which will be […]
AUSTRIA: Data protection for personal data of legal entities under the GDPR?
Introduction With 31 July, the Austrian law amending the Data Protection Act 2000 (Data Protection Amendment Act 2018 – DSG […]
Researchers to be free to test anonymisation measures under UK data protection reforms
Planned changes to UK data protection laws will not put security researchers at risk of breaking the law when they […]
Delaying surveillance reform could undermine the economy
As general counsel of Twilio, a mid-size cloud computing company, I follow Washington closely. You may be surprised to know […]
Can you appoint in-house legal counsel as a DPO? – Guidance from Germany
Under the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which will start to apply on 25 May 2018, many companies will […]
Defining privacy in text messages - a step forward and maybe a step back
When the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms was enacted in 1982, the first text message was still a decade […]
UK’s Data protection bill amended to protect security researchers
The government is to amend the data protection bill to protect security researchers who work to uncover abuses of personal […]
New Year resolution: “I will collect details of transfers from the European Union into the UK and vice-versa”
Mrs May, at the last Prime Minister’s Questions before the Xmas recess, said in response to a question from a […]
Tanzania: Personal Data Protection Law On Horizon
The government is in the process of drafting a personal data protection law that it says wasn’t intended to curb […]
Hacked and hacked off: without change this new data law will fail victims
The data protection bill must be amended so independent organisations acting in the public interest can help consumers to get […]
2018 global legislative predictions in privacy
Taking a look at the activities of 2017, it’s clear that the coming year will see lots of movement on […]