The notion that “Data is the New Oil” has been around for quite some time. Generally credited to mathematician Clive Humby: Data is the new oil. Like oil, data is valuable, but if unrefined it cannot ...

The EU general data protection regulation (GDPR) is the strongest privacy and security law in the world. This regulation updated and modernised the principles of the 1995 data protection directive. It ...

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 ...

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has published an 80-page guidance document for companies and other organisations about using artificial intelligence (AI) in line with data protection ...

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 ...

Safety, security, accuracy, reliability and confidentiality of personal information remain at the top of the priority list of African countries working on improving their data governance frameworks.