Observers of the debate around the potential for a new federal data privacy law know that dozens of relevant bills have been introduced and debated in U.S. Congress over the past couple of legislative sessions. While they make for good reading and discussion material, do any of them have a realistic...

"Observers of the debate around the potential for a new federal data privacy law know that dozens of relevant bills have been introduced and debated in U.S. Congress over the past couple of legislative sessions," writes Müge Fazlioglu, CIPP/E, CIPP/US. "While they make for good reading and discussio...

A survey commissioned by the Centre for Digital Rights found only 9% of Canadian citizens knew political parties are not covered under the country’s privacy laws, The Globe and Mail reports. Of the 1,471 Canadian voters polled, 85% said they did not know about the exemption, and 7% said they were no...

German officials have called for a tightening of data security laws after a data breach exposed documents belonging to hundreds of politicians, Reuters reports. While the breach is currently under investigation, police conducted a raid on a 19-year-old IT worker, Jan Schuerlein, who is being treated...

In July 2018, the U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office released its first report on the use of personal data in political campaigns. As Colin noted in his Privacy Perspectives post last July,  "Democracy Disrupted" outlined the scale and complexity of the issue, made a series of policy recommendat...