Following an inquiry into Meta Platforms Ireland Limited (MPIL), the Data Protection Commission (DPC) in Ireland has fined the firm €91m ($102m) for mishandling social media users’ passwords and GDPR ...

The data watchdog has concluded its High Court proceedings against X, while the UK’s CMA has dropped its investigation into Microsoft and Inflection AI. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has ...

Dixon has led Ireland’s DPC since 2014 and has helped it grow into the EU’s lead regulator for GDPR enforcement, thought the regulator has been criticised in the past. Helen Dixon, Ireland’s data ...

The Data Protection Commission (DPC), Ireland’s data protection regulator, has launched High Court proceedings against Twitter International Unlimited Company, X Corp’s European subsidiary, over the ...

On 14 May the Irish High Court handed down its judgment in the judicial review case brought by Facebook Ireland Ltd (FBI) against the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), finding substantially in ...

On May 22 the Irish Data Protection Commission (“DPC”), Ireland’s data privacy watchdog, issued its final and binding decision against Meta with respect to Facebook’s exporting of personal data from ...

The Data Protection Commission (DPC) in Ireland has fined Meta Platforms Ireland Limited (MPIL) €91 million ($100 million) for storing in plaintext passwords of hundreds of millions of users. The ...

Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has initiated an own-volition inquiry under section 110 of the Irish Data Protection Act of 2018 following the leak of a vast tranche of personal data on ...

An 11th-hour amendment to the government of Ireland’s Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022 will serve to “muzzle” people looking to speak out about how Big Tech and public bodies ...