In the increasing use of internet and growth of online community, it is important that end users data is protected and is safe, to make this happen and ensuring that data is protected, is under law and governing bodies, there are many Governments managed organizations across the world, which are either country specific or region specific. Below is the list of popular global privacy regulatory bodies –
- GDPR – General Data Protection Regulation is the European Union regulation of Information privacy and is important regulatory body for data privacy, human rights and IT Governance.
- DPDPA 2023 – Bharat’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act, it is Bharat’s/India’s first detailed and well defined data protection law, which is very important piece of legislation that looks for safeguarding personal data in India.
- LGPD (Brazil)
- CNIL (France)
- PIPEDA (Canada)
- Law 25 (Quebec)
- POPIA (South Africa)
- nFADP (Switzerland)
- Privacy Act (Australia)
- PDPL (Saudi Arabia)
- PDPL (Argentina)
- PDPL (Andorra)
- DPA (Faroe Islands)
- The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA/CPRA).
- Other significant state privacy laws in the US are –
- VCDPA (Virginia)
- CPA (Colorado)
- CTDPA (Connecticut)
- UCPA (Utah).