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Boards around the world — including in Australia — are ramping up investment in data security and privacy in the rush to become compliant with the European Union’s new privacy law, the General Data Protection Regulation, and to avoid highly damaging data breaches, according to a newly published report.

Apple has taken a shot at Facebook during its Worldwide Developer Conference, unveiling features in its Safari browser that will limit the way the social media company tracks and collects data.

Microsoft will extend the same rights that are at the heart of the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation to all its users worldwide, the company has announced.