Data Protection Regulation

Public concern about online privacy has grown alongside the evidence that many technology companies and platforms require the large-scale surrender of(...)

If I had to pick the most far-reaching and significant threat facing big technology companies in the future, I would not make an obvious choice. (...)

How do you weigh up the annus covidius horribilis of 2020 in words that don’t have to be asterisked? It was a year when a virus inflicted a brutal en(...)

Finally, we’ve arrived at the end of a long tech regulatory limbo, awaiting a first decision that might indicate how the Irish Data Protection Commiss(...)

Twitter has been fined €450,000 by the Data Protection Commission for a data breach, marking the first time the regulator has penalised a big tech com(...)

Softly, softly, a set of proposed European Acts have crept on to the winter horizon with little fanfare – until recent weeks, when the pending draft p(...)

Loony notions about encryption are back on the discussion table in the EU (and Ireland). This does not bode well for any of us.  Encryption is t(...)

There are no “obstacles or barriers” anticipated to publication of the report of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation, which was hand(...)

Brexit will hit trade in services between the Republic and UK irrespective of the outcome of current talks, according to all-island professional body (...)

The Data Protection Commissioner is getting more than €2 million extra next year, giving the digital privacy watchdog a tenfold increase in funding si(...)