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Ireland to get two new data protection commissioners

Two new data protection commissioners are to be appointed to help tackle the “increased working burden and investigative complexity” faced by Ireland’s data watchdog. The current commissioner Helen Dixon is to be appointed chairwoman of the Data ...

27 Jul 2022 at 18:11

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Facebook hit with €17 million fine by Data Protection Commission

The Data Protection Commission (DPC) is imposing a fine of €17m on Meta Platforms Ireland Limited (formerly Facebook Ireland Limited). The decision followed an inquiry by the DPC into a series of twelve data breach notifications it received in ...

15 Mar 2022 at 15:36

National News

Sinn Féin should 'proactively' tell voters about Abú canvassing database, says new report

Sinn Féin must tell voters about an internal party database on their canvassing and electioneering material, the Data Protection Commission has said. A report published today (December 20) by the Data Protection Commissioner says that the Abú ...

20 Dec 2021 at 16:06

National News

Irish data protection watchdog defends handling of social media investigations

Ireland’s data protection watchdog has defended its stance and the pace of its investigations into breaches by social media giants. Data Protection Commissioner Helen Dixon said the long-running criticisms are “becoming old news”. Ireland’s ...

15 Sept 2022 at 10:24

Irish data watchdog fines Meta Ireland 390m euro

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Irish data watchdog to seek order to annul ‘problematic’ EU authority direction

Ireland’s data watchdog has fined Facebook’s parent company Meta Ireland 390 million euro as a row erupted over whether further investigation of the use of people’s data is warranted. Meta Ireland was fined 210 million euro for breaches of ...

04 Jan 2023 at 16:37

National News

Facebook parent company fined 265 million euro by Irish data watchdog

Tech giant Meta has been fined 265 million euro by Ireland’s data protection watchdog for breaching EU data privacy laws. The Data Protection Commission (DPC) issued the sanction against the Facebook parent company for failing to protect ...

28 Nov 2022 at 16:46

National News

WhatsApp challenges €225 million fine by Ireland’s data protection watchdog

WhatsApp has issued legal proceedings challenging the €225m fine it was hit with by Ireland’s data watchdog for breaching privacy regulations. The penalty, which was announced earlier this month, was the largest ever handed down by the ...

16 Sept 2021 at 17:06

National News

75% of Irish data watchdog’s GDPR decisions since 2018 overruled – report

Three quarters of the Irish data watchdog’s GDPR decisions in EU-wide cases were overruled by European regulators, a report has found. The report indicates that 75% of the Data Protection Commission’s decisions in cross-border ...

15 May 2023 at 10:03

National News

WhatsApp fined €5.5m by Ireland’s data watchdog

WhatsApp has been hit with a €5.5 million fine by the Data Protection Commission (DPC) for breaches of the EU’s GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) rules. The penalty was described as “administrative” and is relatively ...

19 Jan 2023 at 15:20

Facebook owner fined record 1.2bn euro for GDPR breach

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Facebook owner fined record €1.2 bill for GDPR breach

Facebook owner Meta has been fined 1.2 billion euro (£1 billion) and was ordered to stop transferring user data from European users to its US servers. The record fine was levied by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) ...

22 May 2023 at 12:47

National News

NHS trusts passed on private patient information to Facebook – report

NHS trusts shared the private information of patients with Facebook, an investigation by The Observer has revealed. A probe by the newspaper found a covert tracking tool was being used by the websites of 20 NHS trusts to ...

28 May 2023 at 06:53

National News

Gardai and Fastway among those reprimanded by watchdog for data breaches in 2022

An Garda Siochana and the Fastway delivery firm are among the organisations that were reprimanded over data breaches, according to a watchdog’s annual report. Gardai reported a breach to the Data Protection Commission ...

07 Mar 2023 at 00:01

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