GDPR outlines six principles that organizations need to abide by. These principles aren't new - they were already outlined in the 1995 directive, but GDPR has revised them slightly. We delve into each ...

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.

Data privacy and personal data breaches have been in the news a lot recently. Over the past few years, companies have been collecting and processing ever-increasing amounts of data about their ...

The General Data Protection Regulation is a European Union privacy law that comes into effect on May 25, 2018. It has been years in the making, and is to replace the last major piece of EU privacy law ...

In instituting the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the EU is at the vanguard of a broader worldwide trend towards building consumer-centric data protection regimes, according to a One World ...

The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) has warned key planks of the bloc’s data protection and privacy regime are under attack from industry lobbyists and could face a critical reception from ...

The incoming General Data Protection Regulation will address the gap and make EU privacy and data laws fit for purpose in the digital age-harmonising data protection laws in the EU. The EU believes ...

The International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA) and the International Bar Association (IBA) have established a Joint Task Force on Data Protection in International Arbitration Proceedings.

Four years after its entry into force, lawyers and businesses say the European Commission's 2018 milestone privacy legislation, GDPR has failed to deliver on one of its key promises—to harmonize data ...

As the May 25 deadline for compliance with the EU’s updated privacy framework fast approaches Facebook is continuing to PR the changes it’s making to try to meet the new data protection standard — and ...