When your personal data has been affected by a breach
28th May 2021
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‘Can I talk to the account-holder?’ – Contacting organisations on behalf of someone else
21st May 2021
One issue which we come across regularly in the Data Protection Commission (‘DPC’) is dissatisfaction from individuals regarding steps they are being asked to take when they contact an organisation on behalf of someone else. ... -
DPC Ireland Regulatory Strategy: Draft for Consultation
23rd April 2021
In its Draft Regulatory Strategy for 2021-2026, the Irish Data Protection Commission sets out an ambitious vision for what it believes will be five crucial years in the evolution of data protection law, regulation and culture. ... -
DPC launches inquiry into Facebook in relation to a collated dataset of Facebook user personal data made available on the internet
14th April 2021
The Data Protection Commission (DPC) today launched an own-volition inquiry pursuant to section 110 of the Data Protection Act 2018 in relation to multiple international media reports, which highlighted that a collated dataset of Facebook user personal data had been made available on the internet. ... -
DPC statement, re: Dataset appearing online
06th April 2021
A dataset, appearing to be sourced from Facebook, has appeared on a hacking website this weekend for free and contains records of 533 million individuals. A significant number of the users are EU users. Much of the data appears to been data scraped some time ago from Facebook public profiles. ...