Ireland

May 26, 2020

Schrems calls on EU authorities to get Irish watchdog to speed up

Privacy activist Max Schrems has called on the European authorities to push the Irish regulator to speed up its handling […]

May 25, 2020

Twitter and Facebook’s WhatsApp are in the firing line as Europe’s leading privacy watchdog for US tech giants edges closer […]

May 20, 2020

Eilis McDonald & John Magee Tusla, Ireland’s child and family agency, has become the first organisation fined under the GDPR […]

April 14, 2020

The Data Protection Commission (DPC), the Irish data supervisory authority headed up by Helen Dixon, has asked other data protection […]

April 9, 2020

On April 6, 2020, the Irish Data Protection Commission (the “DPC”) published a report summarizing the DPC’s findings following a cookie sweep […]

March 4, 2020

Big tech’s lead privacy regulator in Europe has intervened to flag transparency concerns about a Facebook election reminder feature — […]

February 27, 2020

A decision by the Ireland’s data protection watchdog – Data Protection Commissioner – on whether to issue the first fines […]

February 20, 2020

Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner – the lead European Union privacy regulator for most of big tech – has put out […]

February 16, 2020

Facebook has been forced into an embarrassing postponement of its new dating service all across Europe 36 hours before Valentine’s […]

February 7, 2020

Human error is the main data breach trend under the new GDPR regime not cybersecurity incidents according the Irish Data […]

February 6, 2020

Dating app Tinder is the latest tech service to find itself under formal investigation in Europe over how it handles […]

February 5, 2020

The Data Protection Commission (DPC) – Irelands data protection authority -, in its role as Lead Supervisory Authority for Google, […]