GDPR
Cybersecurity & Risk
The Odido Mega-Breach: When a Telecom Giant Refuses to Pay and Millions of Records Hit
Dutch telecom Odido refused a ransom after ShinyHunters stole 6.2 million customer records via social engineering. The four-day data dump that followed.
Policy & Regulation
The Facial Recognition Crackdown: Bans, Restrictions, and a World Diverging
Cameras recognize your face. They compare it against a database.
Policy & Regulation
The Global Privacy Map in 2026: 140+ Countries, One Digital Economy, Zero Consensus
In 2018, when the EU's General Data Protection Regulation took effect, many predicted it would either become a global privacy standard or collapse under its own complexity. Eight years later, the verdict is in: it did both.
Policy & Regulation
The EU AI Act: The World’s First Major AI Law Is Now in Force
On August 1, 2024, the European Union's Artificial Intelligence Act entered into force โ and the world of AI regulation changed forever. For the first time in history, a major economic bloc enacted comprehensive, legally binding rules governing how artificial intelligence may
Cybersecurity & Risk
Algeria’s Data Protection Law (18-07): What Every Business Must Know in 2026
Algeria enacted Law No. 18-07 on the protection of personal data in June 2018 โ modeled substantially on Europe's GDPR โ but for most of its existence it functioned more on paper than in practice.
