Alexander Beck, Senior Data Protection Officer based in Copenhagen, on the particular role of data protection for UNHCR. Since 2015, UNHCR has its own Data Protection Policy. This is the first data ...

Kai Keller (@kaimkeller) is a global leadership fellow at the World Economic Forum and leads the organization's work at the cross-section of innovation and financial stability. The Facebook-Cambridge ...

The notion that “Data is the New Oil” has been around for quite some time. Generally credited to mathematician Clive Humby: Data is the new oil. Like oil, data is valuable, but if unrefined it cannot ...

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 first country to seriously address the issue of protecting digital personal data was the United States of America. In a report titled Records, Computers and the Rights of Citizens issued in 1973, ...

Rather than a comprehensive legal protection for personal data, the United States has only a patchwork of sector-specific laws that fail to adequately protect data. Congress should create a single ...

The British Virgin Islands ("BVI") Data Protection Act, 2021 ("DPA") came into force on 9 July 2021. It was introduced so the BVI would have a data protection framework which is broadly similar to EU ...

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a regulation of the European Union (EU) that became effective on May 25, 2018. It strengthens and builds on the EU's current data protection framework, ...

Paul Gardner and Jas Purewal of interactive entertainment law firm Osborne Clarke discuss what data protection means for games businesses and what they need to do about it. This is the first of a two ...

In digital age, personal data fuels the online ecosystem while also raising privacy concerns. To address this issue, Bangladesh aims to strengthen its data privacy framework by adopting the draft ...

The Union government on Friday (January 3, 2025) evening released the draft Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Rules, 2025, which will enforce provisions of the Digital Personal Data Protection ...

As beholding compliance of PDPO for organisations is a time sensitive matter, some sections of the ordinance will take effect 18 months after gazette notification. Bangladesh is set to enter a new era ...