The Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC) has launched a Meta-supported initiative aimed at strengthening data protection, privacy awareness and regulatory capacity in the country.

In this fourth alert in our series regarding the European Parliament’s formal endorsement of a new collective actions legislation titled the Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on ...

The EU general data protection regulation (GDPR) is the strongest privacy and security law in the world. This regulation updated and modernised the principles of the 1995 data protection directive. It ...

'rendered': 'The Nigeria Data Protection Commission has unveiled a two-year data protection initiative in partnership with Meta Platforms, Facebook’s parent company, aimed at strengthening privacy ...

On May 25, 2018, a new law regulating the collection and use of the personal data of European citizens came into force in all 28 EU member states, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

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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 ...

By Dr. Kofi Anokye Owusu-DarkoGhana is on the verge of replacing its data protection legislation. The Data Protection Bill 2025, which proposes to repeal and replace the Data Protection Act 2012 (Act ...

Comprehensive data protection laws are essential for protecting human rights – most obviously, the right to privacy, but also many related freedoms that depend on our ability to make choices about how ...