Any business or organisation which holds or uses personal data, which means virtually every business, is subject to data protection legislation, like the GDPR. The main pieces of legislation are the ...

When you woke up this morning, you may have noticed that your email inbox has been flooded with emails from businesses and organizations informing you that they have “updated their privacy policy”.

How did it come about? In January 2012, the European Commission set out plans for data protection reform across the European Union in order to make Europe 'fit for the digital age'. Almost four years ...

New rules that have recently come into effect across the EU will allow for greater transfers of data between companies, ...

The road to the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation has been a game of catch-up with legislation responding to shifts in the technological landscape. Sweden was the first country in ...

Meta has been handed several fines by Ireland’s regulator and the European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, for breaching ...

Research has revealed that most employers are unprepared for the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (DUAA), with widespread ...

They’re the four letters that have plagued everyone’s email inboxes for weeks. GDPR, the General Data Protection Regulation, came into force on Friday to give the public more rights over how their ...

If you read financial news with any kind of regularity, you have likely come across the acronym GDPR over the past several months. GDPR stands for General Data Protection Regulation. This law was ...

Facebook-owner Meta and its lead data protection regulator in the European Union, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), are facing an interesting legal challenge over a major data-scraping ...