Data Protection Commissioner

The Department of Social Protection has been told by the State’s data protection watchdog to outline how social welfare legislation provides a “robust(...)

Minister for Health Simon Harris has said people have nothing to fear from the public services card and that it exists merely to ensure people can cla(...)

Mobile network operators have declined to comment on a project by the Central Statistics Office which seeks to force them to hand over phone data for (...)

An extraordinary stand-off has emerged between the State’s official statistics body and the data protection watchdog over a plan by the Central Statis(...)

Many websites offering genetic testing for commercial purposes fail to outline the privacy implications of such tests, Data Protection Commissioner He(...)

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has carried out his first public duty, opening the government’s Data Summit at the Convention Centre in Dublin. Mr Varadkar to(...)

Government departments and other public bodies would be allowed to share information about citizens’ incomes and other financial details under a “sign(...)

The Data Protection Commissioner and Google have urged the High Court to overturn a finding in favour of a man in the first “right to be forgotten” ca(...)

The Government must show that it respects citizens’ right to privacy by giving proper consideration to a major new data protection Bill, an advocacy g(...)

The office of the Data Protection Commissioner has said it is examining the leaking of Garda footage of the late journalist and blogger Dara Quigley. (...)