Alexander Beck, Senior Data Protection Officer based in Copenhagen, on the particular role of data protection for UNHCR. Since 2015, UNHCR has its own Data Protection Policy. This is the first data ...

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) applies to all entities that target or collect data related to persons in the European Union (EU). Due to our global presence, our organization is ...

Resettlement relies on the processing of personal data of refugees. This personal data is collected and processed for the purposes of assessing an individual’s eligibility and suitability for ...

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 ...

At the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union (GSC) we are strongly committed to protecting the personal data of all individuals who come in contact with us. For the EU at large, the ...

While GDPR looms large across the Asia-Pacific region, there are significant differences as jurisdictions develop their own national approaches to privacy. There’s also a growing focus on data ...

The British Virgin Islands ("BVI") Data Protection Act, 2021 ("DPA") came into force on 9 July 2021. It was introduced so the BVI would have a data protection framework which is broadly similar to EU ...