Data Protection Commissioner
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German regulator says Irish data protection commission is being 'overwhelmed'
- Financial Services
- February 3, 2020, 05:27
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) is overwhelmed with the task of regulating big tech, needs more resources and should accept outside help, a(...)

Crises like Brexit jolt Ireland into action, but long-term planning is for the birds
- Economy
- October 11, 2019, 05:24
Once the dust settled after Tuesday’s solemn budget, what was most remarkable was, in fact, just how quickly that dust settled. There was little crib(...)

Schrems II will seriously stress test EU’s data privacy rules
- Technology
- July 11, 2019, 05:30
At long last, a critical Irish data privacy case this week wended its somewhat tortuous and costly way to the Court of Justice of the European Union ((...)

Supreme Court to rule on Facebook data transfer appeal
- Technology
- May 2, 2019, 14:15
The Supreme Court will rule by June 6th on Facebook’s appeal over a High Court decision to refer key issues concerning the validity of European Commis(...)

Laws on hate crimes in cyber space should be a top priority – Rotenberg
- Technology
- December 13, 2018, 15:38
If the US Federal Trade Commission had enforced findings it made in 2011 against Facebook, we might not have had the Cambridge Analytica scandal or Br(...)
RCPI calls for implementation of electronic health records
- Irish News
- May 22, 2018, 22:12
The Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (RCPI) has called for the full implementation of electronic health records, claiming such a move would help(...)

GPs cautioned that repeat smear tests ‘not clinically indicated’
- Irish News
- May 14, 2018, 01:00
General practitioners have been told by the Health Service Executive that an “urgent new screening test is not clinically indicated” for women concern(...)

Facebook to put 1.5bn users out of reach of new EU GDPR privacy law
- Technology
- April 19, 2018, 07:49
If Europe’s new GDPR law restricting what companies can do with people’s online data went into effect tomorrow, almost 1.9 billion Facebook users arou(...)

Watchdog is asked to investigate use of IBRC papers in O’Brien court case
- Irish News
- April 11, 2018, 06:00
The Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) has been asked to investigate how Irish Bank Resolution Corporation documents were used in a court case being t(...)

Commissioner ‘awaiting answers’ from INM on alleged data breach
- Irish News
- April 9, 2018, 20:02
Data Protection Commissioner Helen Dixon has said she is awaiting answers from INM to questions about the suspected data breach involving potentially (...)