Privacy laws give users certain rights over their data, but no jurisdiction has granted them actual ownership of it ...

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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 ...

While the Act provides clarity to users on how their data can be used by corporations, it also provides clarity to companies (including startups) on how they must deal with users’ personal data, and ...

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National Cyber Security Agency (NCSA) yesterday launched Personal Data Sharing Checklist for Regulated Entities, aimed at ...

UNHCR’s General Policy on Personal Data Protection and Privacy (GDPP) brings the Agency’s longstanding human rights-based approach to data protection and privacy ...

A bill to revise Japan's personal data protection law passed the House of Representatives on Tuesday, paving the way for ...

According to Personal Data Protection Commissioner Shariffah Rashidah Syed Othman, the new guidelines are grounded in risk management and accountability, where organisations are required to understand ...

Supreme Court directs MeitY to consider PIL for recovering or destroying stolen personal data of citizens amid rising digital ...

India’s data protection law assigns accountability based not on geography but on control, placing full compliance and penalty ...