Dubai Chamber of Commerce, in cooperation with PWC, recently organised a workshop for businesses that examined the legal and practical aspects of data privacy in the UAE.

Cisco released its 2022 Data Privacy Benchmark Study, a yearly worldwide review of privacy business policies that focuses on the impact of privacy on enterprises and their attitudes toward data privacy.

Since today is Data Privacy Day, it’s a good time to take a step back and think about when, how, and to what extent personal information should be shared or communicated online.

Too often regulations like GDPR and the EU’s more recent invalidation of Privacy Shield in 2020 are seen as barriers. This is possibly because data is the currency of the digital economy and restrictions on its use are viewed as attacks on capitalist freedoms and innovations.This is a narrow view of what the digital economy truly is though.

Many businesses have realised that in order to retain and attract new employees, they must offer increasing working flexibility, and local governments are responding by taking efforts to promote this new work culture.