Data Privacy Laws

Why India failed to prevent Whatsapp data sharing with Facebook while UK succeeded

UK’s success in stopping Facebook shows how a strong data protection legislation can go a long way in protecting individual privacy and preventing abuse of by large corporates.

EU wants to give national privacy regulators more clout in new US data pact

The European Union wants to enhance the power of the bloc's national privacy regulators in policing a planned new EU-U.S. data pact after the previous one was struck down by a top EU court on concerns about mass U.S. surveillance.