Since 2011 this publication has made a biennial assessment of the growing number of data privacy laws and Bills across the globe. This is the start of the seventh such assessment, which in this issue includes two parts, an assessment of the new data privacy laws and Bills since 2021, and a separate assessment of the extent of enforcement of data privacy laws across the globe. Following issues will include an assessment of the current state of international agreements on data privacy, and of international cooperation among data protection authorities, as well as the tables which document these matters for all countries.