Understanding Privacy Shield and GDPR

Understanding Privacy Shield and GDPR

GDPR and Privacy Shield: Protecting Personal Data in a Globalized Digital Economy The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)  and the EU-US Privacy Shield were both designed to protect the privacy of personal data of European Union (EU) citizens. However, the two...
What is the GDPR

What is the GDPR

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) The General Data Protection Regulation is a comprehensive data privacy regulation that came into effect on May 25, 2018, in the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area (EEA). The regulation aims to enhance the...
Understanding Privacy Shield and GDPR

What is Privacy Shield

The EU-US Privacy Shield was a framework designed to ensure the protection of personal data of European Union (EU) citizens that was transferred to the United States (US) for commercial purposes. The framework was established in 2016 to replace the Safe Harbor...
Parcelforce website privacy breach

Parcelforce website privacy breach

Personal data including the signatures of recipients has been exposed to those tracking deliveries on the Parcelforce website. A failure in the system allowed people using the mail tracing service access to the name, postcode and signature of various addressees. The...