Marianne Lesigne
Former Governmental Affairs Trainee, ESOMAR, The Netherlands
9 Articles
Over the past two years, several countries on the continent have implemented laws on personal data protection, or have taken the first steps in this direction. Below you will find a short overview per country...
An update on personal data protection laws in the Middle East region
As part of the series of legal updates on data privacy laws around the world, ESOMAR’s professional standards team focuses this week on recent developments in data protection legislation for the Middle East region. Over...
Data protection in the APAC region: an update
Along with the exponential economic development of many APAC countries, a surge of new or updated data protection laws have seen the light. This is driven by a need to make it easier to do...
Four major data protection fails and how to avoid them
For this week’s column, we look at four of ESOMAR’s data protection recommendations as part of the #BeDataSmart campaign by looking at four recent enforcements of the GDPR. A comprehensive understanding of the GDPR, and...
#BeDataSmart: Understanding the difference between de-identification and anonymization
A common mistake in handling data is to equate de-identification of data with anonymization of data. These two processes, although similar in many ways, should not be mistaken for the same thing. Indeed, whereas anonymization...
Gender inclusivity in research: a jigsaw puzzle?
Over the past few years, we have seen the emergence of the topic of gender inclusivity in the public sphere: countries like Canada and Australia, for example, now give the option for their citizen to...