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 ...

The EU protects individuals' personal data used by law enforcement authorities to prevent, investigate, detect or prosecute criminal offences. On this page Protecting data in judicial and police ...

The birth of GDPR stems from Europe's deep reflection on history. During World War II, the Nazis used population registry ...

The German Parliament said Tuesday that the European Commission’s controversial Data Retention Directive may be illegal. The directive requires European communications service providers to retain data ...

The European Parliament approved a new data-protection directive for the telecommunication sector Thursday. Parliament largely approved the compromise on the directive on data protection that was ...

Shutterstock. All rights reserved.The European Union Data Protection Directive of 1995 has always had lofty, and in many ways implausible, ambitions. As regards the ...

The European Union's regulatory revolution in data stewardship is not limited to the uber-hyped General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), taking effect on May 25. A separate deadline for each of the ...

The Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC) has launched the Meta-Supported Initiatives for Data Protection (M-SIDP), a ...

The Nigeria Data Protection Commission and Meta unveil a two-year initiative to strengthen data protection, privacy ...

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The Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC) has launched a Meta-supported initiative aimed at strengthening data protection, privacy awareness and regulatory capacity in the country.