The lead data supervisor for a slew of tech giants in the European Union, including Apple, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, TikTok and Twitter, is still relying on Lotus Notes to manage complaints and investigations lodged under the bloc’s flagship General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
The DPC had been dealt a stinging rebuke by the EU’s Parliamentary Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs.
On December 18, 2020, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) published its draft Fundamentals for a Child-Oriented Approach to Data Processing.
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission has agreed to swiftly finalize a long-standing complaint against Facebook’s international data transfers for EU to US.
Parliament unanimously approves laws that could result in a 10-year jail sentence.
The Data Protection Commission warned it was “acutely strained” as it grappled with cases involving giant multinational tech companies and rising complaints from members of the public.
Phone data helped clinch murder conviction for Graham Dwyer in 2015 but he may go free.
Twitter has been fined over a bug that made private tweets public, in a world-first for data protection laws.
Despite “very divergent views” between EU data protection authorities over a case of data breaches by Twitter, a final decision […]
The Department of Social Protection was responsible for nearly half the data protection breaches notified by Government departments across the […]
The Irish arm of messaging platform WhatsApp recorded an €11.2 million loss last year after setting aside €77.5 million to […]
European data protection regulators have inched toward an enforcement decision for a Twitter breach that the company publicly disclosed in […]