Hey everyone, so today we’re going to chat about something a bit serious but super important when it comes to our digital lives: Section 170 of the Data Protection Act 2018. You might have heard about ...

2018 was the year that a handful of countries got serious about protecting users’ data. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is surrounded by members of the media as he arrives to testify before a Senate ...

The EU has the strongest data protection rules in the world. Protection of personal data is considered a fundamental right in the EU. On this page Personal data in the digital age Data protection as a ...

Since the EU’s GDPR legislation came into force in 2018, issues around data protection and privacy have come to the fore globally. Growing legislation has given regulators the power to hand out severe ...

Cathay Pacific Airways has been fined £500,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for failing to secure the personal details of 9.4 million customers. Persistent shortcomings in the ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Lorand Laskai is a research associate at the Council on Foreign Relations. You can ...

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 ...