The General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679), [1] abbreviated GDPR, is a European Union regulation on information privacy in the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area (EEA).

Jul 9, 2015 · Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) (Text with EEA relevance)

Data protection legislation controls how your personal information is used by organisations, including businesses and government departments. In the UK, data protection is governed by the UK...

This GDPR overview will help you understand the law and determine what parts of it apply to you. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the toughest privacy and security law in the world. Though it was drafted and passed by the European Union (EU), it imposes obligations onto organizations anywhere, so long as they target or collect ...

Dec 11, 2018 · EU data protection legislation is comprised of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Law Enforcement Directive (LED), and the Data Protection Regulation for EU institutions, bodies, offices and agencies (EUDPR).

GDPR is an EU law with mandatory rules for how organisations and companies must use personal data in an integrity friendly way. Personal data means any information which, directly or indirectly, could identify a living person.

May 4, 2024 · What Is the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)? The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a legal framework that sets guidelines for the collection and processing of...

Jul 1, 2022 · The general data protection regulation (GDPR) protects individuals when their data is being processed by the private sector and most of the public sector. The processing of data by the relevant authorities for law-enforcement purposes is subject to the data protection law enforcement directive (LED) instead (see summary ).

Jun 13, 2024 · 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 was adopted in 2016 and entered into application on 25 May 2018.