The Data Protection Act (DPA) 2018 is the UK’s data protection law. It brings the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) into the UK’s legal system and defines how personal data should be ...

Heriot-Watt University needs to obtain and process certain information about our students to allow us to register students and organise courses, and to carry out other essential university activities.

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force on 25 May 2018. This wide-ranging piece of legislation governs data protection requirements for any entity managing personal data across ...

Microsoft is refusing to tell Scottish policing bodies where and how the sensitive law enforcement data uploaded to its cloud services will be processed, citing “commercial confidentiality”. As part ...

When we had the first reading of the Data (Use and Access) Bill in October last year, I’m not sure many of us would have speculated it would take eight months before it became statute, but it did.

By Dennis AKWABOAH Ghana’s Data Protection Bill, 2025 represents a significant overhaul of the country’s data privacy framework. It seeks to repeal and replace the Data Protection Act 2012, (Act 843), ...