Irish Data Protection Commissioner Archives

Indepth, News December 22, 2019 11:02 am

If the run-up to GDPR D-Day May 25 2018 was epitomised by scaremongering and misinformation, this year has seen a…

News October 14, 2019 2:27 pm

The Irish Data Protection Commission has hit out over a funding shortfall after Dublin snubbed its request for extra cash…

News September 5, 2019 10:27 am

Google’s Authorised Buyers real-time bidding system, used by millions of websites to serve ads to users, deliberately leaks personal data…

News August 20, 2019 10:15 am

Verizon Media, the company behind the Huffington Post, Yahoo and AOL, is facing a major GDPR investigation by the Irish…

News May 23, 2019 9:10 am

The online ad industry is facing one of the biggest threats to its current business model after the Irish privacy…

News May 3, 2019 10:07 am

The Irish Data Protection Commission has finally launched an investigation into US adtech giant Quantcast for potential breaches of GDPR…

News February 4, 2019 12:52 pm

Facebook’s 15th birthday celebrations have been somewhat marred by confirmation that the company is the subject of seven separate data…

News January 29, 2019 12:10 pm

The Irish Data Protection Commissioner is demanding an “urgent briefing” from Facebook over its plans to merge WhatsApp, Instagram and…

News October 17, 2018 3:14 pm

The Irish Data Protection Commission has confirmed that up to 3 million people in the EU were affected by last…

News October 1, 2018 12:27 pm

Facebook’s latest data breach – which has hit up to 50 million accounts – has triggered a raft of investigations…