Privacy

The Data Protection Commission (DPC) has published a new data protection toolkit for schools. The 73-page resource aims to assist schools in meeting their data protection obligations when processing the personal data of children.

Facebook owner Meta has been fined €251 million by the Data Protection Commission (DPC) following a personal data breach. Around 29 million Facebook accounts globally, including around three million based in the EU/EEA, were impacted by a data breach reported by Meta Platforms Ireland Limited (

Maynooth University has been fined €40,000 following a personal data breach. The Data Protection Commission (DPC) last week announced its final decision in an inquiry which it commenced on an own-volition basis in July 2019.

Nearly eight in 10 in-house lawyers have received a data subject access request (DSAR) from an employee or a customer in the last 12 months, a poll conducted by William Fry suggests.

LinkedIn has been slapped with a €310 million fine by Ireland's Data Protection Commission in connection with behavioural analysis and targeted advertising. The inquiry into LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company was launched by the DPC, in its role as the lead supervisory authority for LinkedIn, f

Ryanair is facing a Data Protection Commission (DPC) inquiry into its customer verification process, which includes the use of facial recognition technology. The DPC has received a number of complaints regarding the budget airline's practice of requesting additional ID verification from customers wh

The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has been slapped with a £750,000 fine over its unprecedented data breach last year. The force inadvertently published the names, roles and other personal details of all serving police officers and civilian staff on its website just over a year ago.

A lawyer representing thousands of officers involved in the PSNI data breach has welcomed proposed mediation in the case. The unprecedented PSNI data breach last year saw the names, roles and other personal details of all serving police officers and civilian staff inadvertently published on its webs

Kane Tuohy employment lawyer Triona Cody highlights data protection lessons for employers following a case where a man was filmed outside of work while on sick leave. Earlier this summer, in Philip McCabe and AA Ireland Limited [2024] IECC 6, the Circuit Court awarded €5,500 for damages suffere

Kennedys lawyers Gearóid Corrigan and Sinéad Reilly lay out the issues in an ongoing Supreme Court case over a claim for non-material damages arising from a data breach. Is it necessary to get an authorisation from the Injuries Resolution Board (formerly PIAB) prior to issuing a claim

Elon Musk's social media company X has agreed to suspend its use of EU users' data to train an AI chatbot. Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) this week launched High Court proceedings under section 134 of the Data Protection Act 2018 for the first time in order to prevent X from using EU dat

Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) has launched High Court proceedings against Twitter International Unlimited Company, the Dublin-based data controller for social media platform X. The regulator is seeking an injunction preventing the company from using EU users' data to train an AI-powered

The Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal by convicted murderer Graham Dwyer in a case concerning the admissibility of evidence which was obtained in breach of EU law. Delivering judgment for the Supreme Court, Mr Justice Maurice Collins said the court had dealt with "materially identical issues" in

Irish businesses continue to face challenges in complying with the GDPR six years on from its introduction, according to new research by Forvis Mazars and McCann FitzGerald LLP. A survey conducted by Ipsos B&A found just 15 per cent of businesses considered their organisation to be "fully compli

New legislation is to streamline information on road collisions and end the need for paper tax discs. The Roads Bill 2024 will provide the necessary legislative basis to facilitate the flow of information so that local authorities, in their role as road authorities, may request, receive, and process