Ghana ranks 95th in the global Financial Secrecy Index (FSI) 2018 report polling a secrecy score of 62 in a study published by the Tax Justice Network in conjunction with Transparency International,...
India's Supreme Court began hearing submissions Wednesday to determine whether Indians have a constitutional right to privacy in a challenge to the government's massive biometric database, which...
Parliament has summoned three ministers over measures being taken to protect sensitive state data. The Ministers for Communications, Interior and National Security would be required to provide a...
Four companies in Accra have been summoned to the cybercrime unit of the Ghana Police Criminal Investigation Department at the headquarters for flouting the Data Protection Act. This was an exercise...
Scores of multinational companies and some state institutions face a legal action from the Data Protection Commission for violating the requirement to register with it, in accordance with Section 27...
Sensitive personal details relating to almost 200 million US citizens have been accidentally exposed by a marketing firm contracted by the Republican National Committee. The 1.1 terabytes of data...
The Data Protection Commission (DPC), would from , begin a monthly publication of the list of offending data collectors in the newspapers, with the objective of naming and shaming them. The...
Germany's Deutsche Bank said Friday it would not disclose any information on its links to US President Donald Trump and his family, rejecting a request from US lawmakers. Democratic members of the...
A report by the Committee on Communications of Parliament shows that the National Identification Authority (NIA) is yet to register and issue a national identification card to 83percent of the...
The Ghana Community Network Services Limited (GCNet) is rallying support from corporate Ghana to partner the Data Protection Commission in the implementation of the Data Protection Act in the wake of...
A Swiss man has been arrested in Frankfurt on suspicion of spying. German federal prosecutors said the man was suspected of having worked "for the intelligence service of a foreign power" since early...
The Ghana Community Network Services Limited (GCNet) is rallying support from corporate Ghana to partner the Data Protection Commission in the implementation of the Data Protection Act in the wake of...
President Akufo Addo has called on Ministries and Agencies to take the first step and register with the Data Protection Commission (DPC) to serve as an example to other institutions to emulate. In a...
In an internationally coordinated investigation, authorities in five countries searched offices of Swiss banking giant Credit Suisse. Prosecutors are investigating tax evasion by the bank's clients....
Dutch prosecutors say they have launched co-ordinated raids in several countries against suspected money-launderers and tax evaders. They are investigating about 3,800 Dutch-linked accounts in an...
US internet service providers will soon no longer need consent from users to share browsing history with marketers and other third parties. On Tuesday the House of Representatives voted to repeal an...
US internet service providers will soon no longer need consent from users to share browsing history with marketers and other third parties. On Tuesday the House of Representatives voted to repeal an...
US lawmakers voted Tuesday to roll back rules that would block internet service providers from selling user data to third parties, following a heated debate over privacy protections. The House of...
An Ohio man claimed he was forced into a hasty window escape when his house caught fire last year. His pacemaker data obtained by police showed otherwise, and he was charged with arson and insurance...
Facebook now explicitly prohibits companies and organizations from using its services for surveillance. An update to its policies on both Facebook and Instagram prohibits developers from using...
