Reporting Data Breaches Around The World

Our data privacy experts have compiled an interactive map showing the rules on reporting data breaches around the world.

Background

In response to the EU's corporate sustainability reporting requirements, the Ius Laboris data privacy expert group is focussing on ways to engender trust in organisations through transparency and accountability in the sphere of data privacy.

So that our international clients can take an informed view of whether or not a data breach is reportable, we have created this interactive map setting out the international obligations on breach reporting. In red countries, it is likely that the breach will need to be reported – in green, it may be that no formal report is necessary. The amber countries represent a middle ground. Of course, where a breach notification is not required, companies may still wish to proceed with notification for other reasons, as set out below.