This content is contributed or sourced from third parties but has been subject to Finextra editorial review. I started the year writing about three important new laws that were with us in the House of ...

The European Union’s (EU) new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which goes into full effect in May 2018, creates a comprehensive regulatory regime for the way that personal data of EU ...

Uber has been fined €290 million in the Netherlands for improperly sending driver data from Europe to the U.S. CrowdStrike could have a European-size data problem on its hands While CrowdStrike ...

What Is the Digital Omnibus Regulation Proposal? Maybe you’ve heard–the EU has a bit of a reputation for excessive regulation ...

Editor’s note: WRAL TechWire is running a five-part series on data privacy law to bring some clarity to one of the fastest growing and most complex areas of technology law, and the first part is here.

Over the past five years, businesses have been faced with an increasingly burdensome regulatory environment in the U.S. and European Union when ...

The Data Protection Bill, 2025 has been carefully structured to anticipate emerging industries and innovations, including ...

In May 2023, Meta was fined a record-breaking 1.2 billion euros ($1.3 billion) by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) for breaching the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The DPC ruled ...

India's government is discussing shortening the 18-month data protection compliance timeline for large companies. Many firms already follow strict global standards. This move aims to align with ...

India's new data protection law promises privacy safeguards, but critics warn it expands government power, curtails ...