As the world marks Data Privacy Week under the theme “Take Control of Your Data,” digital rights organisation Paradigm Initiative (PIN) has praised countries that have taken steps to strengthen data ...

Key Takeaways - U.S. state privacy laws continue to expand and evolve. As of January 1, 2026, Indiana, Kentucky, and Rhode ...

An overview of federal and state laws governing children’s and student privacy in the US, including the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), as well as sector-specific rules, ...

Legal efforts to tackle excessive personal information collection by social media giants could transcend international ...

The Data Protection Commission (DPC), in partnership with the Ghana Association of Privacy Professionals (GAPP), has launched ...

More states are passing laws to protect information generated by a person's brain and nervous system as technology improves the ability to unlock the sensitive details of a person's health, mental ...

On 21 March 2025, the New Federal Law for the Protection of Personal Data in Possession of Private Parties came into effect, superseding and repealing the prior data protection law. The new law ...

European law firms are clashing over the right to control their personal data, as courts weigh privacy against public access to information.

Under the rules, tech companies are required to implement a mechanism for collecting “verifiable” parental consent before ...

The Data Protection Commission (DPC) has announced that 2026 will be a decisive year for the enforcement of Ghana’s data protection laws, warning that institutions that flout the rules will face ...

On January 26, 2026, the Brazilian data protection authority (“ANPD”) announced that Brazil and the European Union agreed to mutually recognize the adequacy of each other’s data protection networks.