Privacy

An exemption to EU privacy legislation which has allowed online platforms to carry out monitoring for child sexual abuse material is set to expire. The Children's Rights Alliance has expressed alarm and deep concern over the looming expiration of the agreement on 3 April 2026.

An Oireachtas committee is seeking views on upcoming legislation on AI regulation and data governance. The joint committee on enterprise, tourism and employment has invited written submissions from interested individuals and organisations as part of its pre-legislative scrutiny of the Regulation of

The University of Limerick has been fined €98,000 following a series of personal data breaches. The Data Protection Commission (DPC) yesterday published its final decision following an own-volition inquiry into the breaches, which occurred between November 2018 and January 2020.

The UK's data protection regulator has fined Reddit £14.47 million (around €16.6m) for children's privacy failures. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said the online platform had failed to apply a robust age assurance mechanism to prevent under-13s from creating accounts.

The "right to be forgotten" has not been fully realised, according to a new report on a Europe-wide enforcement campaign. Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) was among the EU data protection bodies which took part in enforcement actions under the European Data Protection Board's (EDPB) coordi

The Data Protection Commission (DPC) has opened an inquiry into Elon Musk's social media company, X, in relation to the AI-generated images scandal. The DPC's inquiry into X Internet Unlimited Company (XIUC) under section 110 of the Data Protection Act 2018 is separate to an ongoing EU investig

The High Court has dismissed proceedings claiming GDPR breaches by solicitors involved in the conveyance of an auctioned mortgaged property to its new owners. Delivering judgment for the High Court, Mr Justice David Nolan reasoned: "The processing was necessary for the work of a solicitor working in

WhatsApp Ireland can bring an EU court challenge to the imposition of a €225 million GDPR fine which followed an investigation by Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC), the Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled. The General Court had previously held that any challenge to the 202

A not-for-profit initiative operated by Dublin City University has been registered as Ireland's first data altruism organisation under an EU framework. Elec-tarrifs.ie is the first organisation to be registered by the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) in its role as the designate

No error was made by the Northern Ireland Courts and Tribunals Service when dozens of PSNI officers and staff taking action over a 2023 data breach were again named online, the justice minister has said. An unprecedented data breach in August 2023 saw the names, roles and other personal details of a

PSNI officers and staff affected by a major data breach in 2023 have been offered £7,500 each in compensation. The universal offer of compensation follows the allocation of £119 million by the Northern Ireland Executive to cover costs relating to the breach and litigation.

Businesses can now freely exchange data between the EU and Brazil following the adoption of mutual adequacy decisions under data protection laws. The adoption of the mutual adequacy decisions by the European Commission and Brazil follows an opinion by the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) and th

Ireland remains firmly at the centre of European enforcement of the GDPR, according to a new report from DLA Piper. The eighth edition of the global law firm's annual GDPR fines and data breach survey reveals that GDPR enforcement across Europe remained consistently high throughout 2025, with regula

Powers to intercept communications are to be overhauled for the first time since the advent of the smartphone, the government has announced. The Communications (Interception and Lawful Access) Bill will update and replace the Interception of Postal Packets and Telecommunications Messages (Regulation

A crucial part of the legal framework for the free flow of personal data between the EU and the UK post-Brexit has been extended until 2031. The European Commission has renewed the two 2021 adequacy decisions under which the UK's legal framework for data protection is recognised as meeting standards