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Prepare for a new and evolving regulatory framework by following data privacy and protection regulation news as it happens

Data, privacy and cybersecurity represent a new major front in regulation, enforcement and compliance. MLex has been at the forefront of covering this emerging area of risk for years through its regulatory news coverage of the latest data privacy and protection developments in the tech sector, GDPR and CCPA.

MLex has a dedicated, global team focused on reporting regulatory news updates on data, privacy and security issues facing companies across industries. Regulators and lawmakers in many jurisdictions are still creating the legal framework to police such matters. Regulators, agencies and courts are starting to find their feet in these new areas of regulation and enforcement, which is shaping how companies develop compliance efforts in response.

MLex covers the whole data privacy and data protection process, from the germ of a new rule or law, through to its adoption, implementation and enforcement.

What was once an area of almost exclusive interest to the tech and internet industries has now become a general regulatory risk hanging over any company handling personal and other sensitive data.

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Read a selection of our Data Privacy & Security coverage

The GDPR at five: Great expectations, middling results and an uncertain outlook

26 May 2023 14:59 by Sam Clark

When the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation came into force five years ago, some said it would usher in a new era of EU supremacy over Silicon Valley's tech giants, reining in their rampant data-driven power.
- Data Privacy and Security
- Europe
The GDPR resonates globally, perhaps even more outside Europe than in it

24 May 2023 15:39 by Mike Swift

Since the General Data Protection Regulation took effect five years ago this week, more than 40 countries have enacted national privacy laws, most of which drew liberally from the canonical text of the EU law.
Once a global rarity, data protection laws 'becoming ubiquitous,' new research shows

23 May 2023 23:47 by Mike Swift

The count of countries with data protection laws more than doubled to 162 over the past dozen years, a total that includes a wide majority of the world’s nations, with new research suggesting data protection rules are approaching ubiquity.