Data Protection Regulation

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg breezed through Dublin on Tuesday, pressing the point for regulation of the internet in a bid to deal with harmful co(...)

The Government has issued Brexit advice to Irish businesses that may be storing personal data in the UK or in a UK-based cloud service. Companies “ne(...)

The State’s data privacy watchdog will start making decisions by the summer on whether internet giants should face large fines under the new EU data p(...)

A ruling last week in Germany has the potential to change the parameters of surveillance capitalism by forcing Facebook and many other companies to li(...)

The regulator overseeing the handling of personal data is “extremely concerned” about the ability of the Office of Public Works to find a permanent of(...)

The State data watchdog is investigating the refusal of public bodies and private companies to properly spell Irish names after a television producer (...)

The family of a prisoner in Mountjoy Prison was refused details about why he had been locked in a “padded cell” due to GDPR constraints, lawyers for t(...)

‘Privacy – the question of who has the right to obtain, retain, and perhaps even sell personal information in digital form – is becoming one of the ho(...)

Irish banks looking to avail of the advantages presented by cloud computing also have to be aware of the risks, according to Andreas Carney, technolog(...)

Many Irish businesses were caught in the fallout from Brexit almost as soon as UK voters chose to leave the world’s biggest trading bloc, in June 2016(...)