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Ireland's data protection watchdog has launched an inquiry into media reports of a Twitter data breach affecting millions of users. In a statement issued just before Christmas, the Data Protection Commission (DPC) said it had launched an own-volition inquiry pursuant to section 110 of the Data Prote

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Facebook owner Meta is set to be told it cannot force users of its services to agree to personalised ads in what privacy campaigners have said will be a "huge blow to Meta's profits in the EU". The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) yesterday said it had adopted three binding decisions addressing

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The Circuit Court has dismissed an appeal from a decision by the Data Protection Commission that a verbal disclosure by a barrister regarding a conflict of interest did not breach their GDPR obligations. The appeal was taken by a former client of the barrister who claimed that the disclosure breache

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Matheson partners Kate McKenna and Davinia Brennan explain coming changes to Ireland's data retention regime. New Irish data retention laws governing the retention and access of electronic communications data are in the pipeline following two fresh data retention judgments from the Court of Justice

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The Data Protection Commission (DPC) has submitted a draft decision in an inquiry into Yahoo! EMEA Limited to other concerned supervisory authorities across the EU.

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Tesco has been warned by the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) that it could sue the supermarket giant if its UK "checkout-free store" pilot is expanded to Ireland. The NGO wrote to Tesco in the wake of news reports about a man who was allegedly refused access to a store in London without dow

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Ireland's data protection watchdog is being sued by a man who complained about the Catholic Church's refusal to destroy his baptismal records. Martin Meany, a former Catholic, made a complaint to the Data Protection Commission (DPC) in 2018 after the church told him that it would not destroy data of

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A draft decision in a large-scale investigation of a Facebook data breach has been submitted by Ireland's data protection watchdog to other EU authorities. The Data Protection Commission (DPC) commenced the inquiry into Meta Platforms Ireland Limited (MPIL), which operates Facebook, in April 2021 af

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A draft decision in a large-scale investigation of TikTok's processing of children's data has been submitted by Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) to other EU authorities. The investigation is one of two own-volition inquiries into TikTok launched by the DPC in September 2021.

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Michael Madden of Mason Hayes & Curran LLP examines forthcoming changes to Ireland's data retention laws. The Communications (Retention of Data) (Amendment) Act 2022 is intended to amend existing Irish data retention law to address the impact of recent EU case law, including that relating to the

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Global identity verification provider ID-Pal has announced the appointment of Sinead McDonald, its data protection officer (DPO), to its board of directors. Ms McDonald, a qualified solicitor, joined the company in 2017, bringing with her over 20 years' experience in data protection and regulatory c

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