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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. ...
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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. ...
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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. ...
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DPC launches inquiry into processing of personal data by the Department of Health

30th March 2021
The Data Protection Commission (DPC) has launched a statutory inquiry under Section 110 of the Data Protection Act, 2018 arising from the revelations on last Thursday’s Prime Time programme on RTE concerning the processing by the Department of Health of the personal data of children with autism who were involved in legal actions against the State. ...
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The “Children’s Fundamentals” – A guide to protecting children’s personal data

18th March 2021
The DPC published a comprehensive draft guidance document at the end of last year entitled “Children Front and Centre: Fundamentals for a Child-Oriented Approach to Data Processing” (or “the Fundamentals” for short). ...
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