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DPC announces inquiry into TikTok Technology Limited’s transfers of EEA users’ personal data to servers located in China

10th July 2025

The Data Protection Commission (DPC) has today announced that it has opened an inquiry into TikTok Technology Limited’s (TikTok) transfers of EEA users’ personal data to servers located in China. The inquiry follows on from the DPC’s decision of 30 April 2025, which also considered TikTok’s transfers of EEA users’ personal data to China under a separate inquiry. ...

DPC Public Attitudes Survey 2025

19th June 2025

 To coincide with the publication of the 2024 Annual Report, the Data Protection Commission has also released the results of an independent Public Attitudes Survey. The survey, which was undertaken as part of a mid-point review of the DPC’s Regulatory Strategy 2022-2027, was conducted in May 2025. ...

DPC announces conclusion of investigation into use of facial matching technology in connection with the Public Services Card by the Department of Social Protection

12th June 2025

The Data Protection Commission (DPC) has today announced its final decision following the conclusion of an inquiry into the Department of Social Protection (DSP). This inquiry, which commenced in July 2021, examined the DSP’s processing of biometric facial templates, and usage of associated facial matching technologies, as part of the registration process for the Public Services Card. ...

DPC statement on Meta AI

21st May 2025

Over the past two years, the Data Protection Commission (DPC) has been engaging intensively with many of the leading technology companies at the forefront of AI developments in particular concerning the use of adult's personal data to train Large Language Models in the EU/EEA. ...

Data Protection Commission Announces commencement of inquiry into X Internet Unlimited Company (XIUC)

11th April 2025

The Data Protection Commission (DPC) has today announced the commencement of an inquiry into the processing of personal data comprised in publicly-accessible posts posted on the ‘X’ social media platform by EU/EEA users, for the purposes of training generative artificial intelligence models, in particular the Grok Large Language Models (LLMs). ...