Category: Privacy Laws

The ideology behind it is slowly sinking in — comparisons with the millennium bug never did make sense. With every data breach and fine, with every privacy scare, the coin drops that little bit further. The Bank of England Governor, Mark Carney, has described cyber as one of the most …

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Advances in EU data law have tightened the way organisations handle the data of the bloc’s residents, but new legislation such as the GDPR, is opening the eyes of leaders worldwide to the real value of data security in the digital era. Google are finding out the hard way, following …

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The GDPR arrived on May 25th 2018 to clean up data security, bringing higher standards of data processing and threatening non-compliant organisations with fines of up to ?20 million or 4% of annual turnover. [...]Read More...

As one country adopts a GDPR-type framework, will others follow: countries falling for a European style privacy framework, one at a time? A country that trades a great deal with the EU may simply find it easier to adopt its own GDPR style regulation – in this way it may …

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