Privacy

The reopening of physical workplaces following the COVID-19 pandemic will raise complex data protection issues, DLA Piper Ireland has warned. As Ireland progresses over the coming months through the five phases of reopening the economy, data protection issues will arise in relation to issues includi

Ireland's data protection watchdog has reached significant milestones in separate investigations into Twitter, WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook. In a statement, the Data Protection Commission (DPC), led by commissioner Helen Dixon, has submitted a draft decision in relation to its inquiry into Twitt

Claims have been lodged in courts in Belfast and in London on behalf of easyJet customers affected by the airline's recent data breach. In a statement last week, the airline said that nine million customers had their email addresses and travel details exposed in a data breach notified to the UK auth

A woman has been ordered to remove photos of her grandchildren from her social media accounts after a judge ruled that the matter was covered by the GPDR. The children's mother launched legal proceedings in the Dutch city of Arnhem after her own mother, with whom her relationship broke down a year a

Eversheds Sutherland has been awarded internationally-recognised certification for its exemplary data protection and information security. The global law firm now holds the ISO 27001 standard for information security management systems (ISMS) in the Republic of Ireland and in Northern Ireland for it

Tusla has been fined a total of €75,000 for breaching GDPR rules in the first fines of their kind in Ireland. The fines were handed down by the Data Protection Commissioner following three investigations into issues notified by Tusla in November 2018, October 2019 and November 2019.

Individuals may have a right to know if their telecoms provider has been asked for their personal data by a State agency such as An Garda Síochána, the Data Protection Commissioner has ruled. In a decision issued two weeks ago, the watchdog said that a request by a State agency constit

Privacy rights campaigners have overwhelmed Ireland's data protection watchdog with calls for sweeping investigations of entire industries, Data Protection Commissioner Helen Dixon has said. Speaking to The New York Times, Ms Dixon suggested that many people had overestimated the impact of the EU Ge

Guidance on working from home securely has been published by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). The coronavirus pandemic has suddenly presented IT personnel and indeed all users with a set of cyber security challenges that, while not unique, are being experienced on a significantly larger s

Irish website operators have been warned they could face enforcement action from the Data Protection Commission (DPC) over their use of tracking cookies. Following a sweep of 38 websites across a range of sectors, the watchdog said users of Irish websites "are being tracked by third parties to a sig

The UK government has been advised by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) that it can use anonymised mobile phone data in order to track people who have COVID-19. Deputy commissioner Steve Wood said in a statement: “Generalised location data trend analysis is helping to tackle the coro

The number of complaints to the Data Protection Commission rose by 75 per cent last year, according to the watchdog's annual report. A total of 7,215 complaints were received in the first full calendar year since the introduction of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), up from 4,113 in

Dublin firm FP Logue has been appointed as solicitors to Article Eight Advocacy CLG, a new non-profit advocating for data subject rights in Ireland. The law firm, led by principal Fred Logue, specialises in environment, technology, data protection and information law.

The Courts Service has lost an appeal against the Data Protection Commissioner’s finding that it breached pre-GDPR legislation by publishing the name of a notice party who had been granted anonymity. Dismissing the appeal, Judge Francis Comerford said the Courts Service was obviously a data co

The Data Protection Commission (DPC) has launched statutory inquiries into practices at tech companies Google and Tinder. The watchdog said it had received complaints from consumer organisations across the EU in relation to Google's processing of location data and transparency surrounding that proce