Data Protection Commissioner

An investigation by the Data Protection Commissioner into a massive data breach involving the accounts of 500 million Yahoo customers is due to concl(...)

A primary school’s computer system was encrypted by hackers who demanded a ransom to release the personal details of its pupils. The case is outline(...)

An employee of a residential care home was fired after a supervisor used a mobile phone to take photos of them sleeping on the job covered in a duvet,(...)

The State’s surveillance and communications interception laws require “a thorough modernisation” to ensure state-of-the-art powers for intelligence ag(...)

Hospitals are to be inspected by the State’s data watchdog to ensure staff are respecting patient privacy when staff handle data in public areas. Da(...)

The Department of Justice sought to have the audit files of the Data Protection Commissioner barred from public disclosure to protect guarantees of co(...)

Internet pioneer Vint Cerf will address an international conference in Dublin in June which aims to explore the expanding role of data in society. M(...)

A few weeks ago, I got into a taxi. Nothing out of the ordinary about it, it was just a regular taxi journey. A bit of chat with the driver, talking a(...)

The independent regulator responsible for protecting the privacy rights of hundreds of millions of EU citizens does not have to disclose details of lo(...)

New patient safety and health information legislation would create an “insurmountable conflict” for the Data Protection Commissioner if it imposes the(...)