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Data Privacy: Protection and proliferation 

How businesses and consumers proliferate, preserve and protect data is a subject of increasing importance for boardrooms and their legal advisers. Yet as businesses grapple with the issues it is clear the onus is firmly on policymakers to ensure a close intersection exists between current and developing regulations.

The questions demanding an answer revolve around whether gaps in the current patchwork of rules can be plugged and how domestic and global policymakers can create greater alignment so that personal data is protected no matter where it is created, located, or used.
 

To better understand these themes, Herbert Smith Freehills conducted research to coincide with International Data Privacy Day which explores the views of 5,000 consumers across the UK, Australia, Singapore, Germany, France, Spain, Italy and Indonesia.

The results make a clear case for:

• Greater alignment between domestic and global policymakers and regulators

• Encouraging data minimisation

• Promoting better consumer behaviours

 Read more on the findings of our research below.