For 40 years, the Council of Europe Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data - Convention 108 – has been the only international legally binding ...

Debates around protecting personal data, including biometrics, have intensified, as public and private entities increasingly deploy biometric technologies in contexts like policing, public spaces and ...

In pursuit of its international protection and solutions mandate, UNHCR is often required to process personal data of individuals including persons of concern, UNHCR personnel, donors, suppliers ...

The Council, represented by the Polish presidency of the Council of the EU, and the European Parliament secured a provisional deal on a new law which will improve cooperation between national data ...

Data privacy laws prohibit misuse or disclosure of private individuals’ data. At least 89 countries have enacted data privacy laws, and more countries are expected to enact their own data privacy laws ...

Data privacy and data protection—to a layperson, they may sound like the same thing. However, they’re distinctly different concepts. Yet each is equally important when it comes to businesses ...

Europe's most senior data protection regulators are convening in Brussels tonight for a high-stakes debate on the most consequential proposed changes to digital privacy law since the General Data ...

A controversial move by Meta last year, when it switched to charging users in the European Union for an ad-free subscription to Facebook and/or Instagram unless they agreed to be tracked and profiled ...

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 ...