The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a regulation of the European Union (EU) that became effective on May 25, 2018. It strengthens and builds on the EU's current data protection framework, ...

(Brussels, June 6, 2018) – The new European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will enhance privacy and should spur other countries to improve protection of people’s personal information, ...

The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) published its final recommendations yesterday setting on guidance for making transfers of personal data to third countries to comply with EU data protection ...

Remember the backlash over that impossible-to-understand privacy policy update pushed out by WhatsApp last year? A consumer protection complaint over the messaging platform’s aggressive push to make ...

WhatsApp is continuing to face scrutiny from the European Union's data protection regulators, who say the Facebook-owned company has failed to address the concerns raised around its privacy policy ...

Looking ahead to 2026, data protection laws in the UK and other jurisdictions will continue to evolve to meet novel ...

Data adequacy with the EU became a critical issue after the UK left the bloc, and the original 2021 agreement was based on ...

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 ...

If you do business with EU citizens, you must comply with General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), including the mandate in Article 27 requiring many non-EU companies to appoint a data protection ...

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force on 25 May 2018. This wide-ranging piece of legislation governs data protection requirements for any entity managing personal data across ...

The revised EU pharmaceutical policy maintains eight-year data protection but reduces market protection to one year, ...