Data attacks reached an all-time high in 2019 as we continued to transform our lives digitally — moving our work, health, financial, and social information online. In response, businesses must meet ...

The importance of safeguarding data privacy has gained significant awareness in recent years. This is reflected in the growing commitment of governments to ensure data protection through legislative ...

Recently, I have observed that many organizations register with the regulator as a legal requirement but fail to put data protection into actual practice. Often, the next time they think about data ...

The European Union’s (EU) ambitious and far-reaching regulation, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), became effective on 25 May 2018. On the one-year anniversary, we reflect on some of the ...

Data protection laws in Europe evolved substantially in 2018, with the implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Directive on Security of Network and Information Systems ...

Celio Vikas, a retired public servant from São Paulo, recalls a particularly harrowing incident in January where an imposter, posing as a bank employee over the phone, almost conned him out of his ...

The Federal Government has launched the Youth Data Protection Awareness and Training (YDPAT) programme targeting over one million Nigerian youths. The training includes free classroom and virtual ...

In recent days, Kenyans have expressed growing concerns over reports of unlawful recording, unauthorised sharing of images, videos and other forms of digital surveillance occurring without their ...

Botswana's newly enacted Data Protection Act provides a robust framework for safeguarding personal data. This statement was originally published on misa.org on 17 January 2025. The Act replaces the ...

The training, which is free, includes classroom and virtual sessions focusing on the Data Protection Act, data breach response, and compliance monitoring among others. Minister of Youth Development ...