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28 January 2024 is Data Protection Day (or Data Privacy Day outside of Europe), which marks the anniversary of the Council of Europe’s Convention 108. Data Privacy Day encourages the global community to think about the importance of respecting privacy, safeguarding data, and enabling trust. In an increasingly connected and digitized world, where data protection, privacy and cybersecurity regulation are rapidly evolving, the work of the global data community is more vital, and more challenging,…

The European Data Act is part of a comprehensive package of data-focused regulations proposed in February 2020 to achieve Europe’s data strategy. The strategy recognises that individuals are at the centre of data generation and that the use of personal data must prioritise its data subject’s protection but it also identifies that much of the data created is non-personal and represents an untapped source of growth and innovation. This is why the EU seeks to strike a…