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 ...

On 14 March 2022 the Data Protection Commission of Ireland (DPC) handed down a decision in respect of 22 personal data breach notifications made by the Bank of Ireland Group Plc (BOI) between November ...

Hong Kong proposes to widen the current definition of “personal data” to cover not just “identified” persons but also “identifiable” persons. The amendment is expected to cover the use of online ...

Europe’s data protection supervisors have warned that proposals by the European Commission to reform privacy law by narrowing the definition of personal data could erode privacy rights for European ...

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) implemented in May 2018 stands as a landmark regulatory framework aimed at protecting personal data and privacy for individuals within the European Union ...

PII definition: What is personally identifiable information? PII, or personally identifiable information, is any piece of data that someone could use to figure out who you are. Some types of PII are ...

EU countries are set to remove the Commission’s controversial proposal to amend the definition of personal data from the Digital Omnibus, per a Council compromise dated 20 February and obtained by ...

When I attend the RSA 2025 conference in San Francisco at the end of April, I will be having a series of conversations with customers, partners and people who want to be customers or partners, and the ...

January 28 marks Data Privacy Day. Founded in 2007 by the Council of Europe, the aim of Data Privacy Day is to raise public awareness about the right to personal data ...