The Internet has made the access and exchange of information – including personal data – easier and faster than ever. Individuals are providing their personal data online, knowingly and sometimes ...

Safety, security, accuracy, reliability and confidentiality of personal information remain at the top of the priority list of African countries working on improving their data governance frameworks.

All data related to an identified or (directly or indirectly) identifiable person are personal data. In other words, they are much more than just a name, personal identity code or contact information.

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 ...

The proposed Data Protection Act (DPA) of Bangladesh has raised some serious human rights and business-related concerns at home and abroad. The draft law poorly defines the classification of data and ...

The Data Protection Bill, 2023 was introduced in the Lok Sabha on Thursday, with several Opposition parliamentarians opposing the move and asking for it to be sent to a standing committee instead, ...

Seeking comments from the public, the government yesterday published a draft Data Protection Bill which envisages the appointment of a Data Protection Commissioner and sets stiff penalties, in one ...

It has now been almost three and a half years since the Rwandan Law No. 058/2021 of October 13, 2021, on the protection of personal data and privacy (the "Data Protection Act" or "DPA") came into ...