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Know Your Rights and Have Your Say! Stream Two of the DPC’s Public Consultation on the Processing of Children’s Personal Data and the Rights of Children as Data Subjects under the GDPR

28th January 2019

The Data Protection Commission (DPC) has launched the second stream of its public consultation on the processing of children’s personal data and the rights of children as data subjects under the GDPR. This stream of the consultation, in which the DPC is supported by the Ombudsman for Children’s Office (OCO), seeks to involve children and young people directly in the classroom.  ...

EDPB Guidelines 4/2018 on the accreditation of certification bodies under Article 43 of the General Data Protection Regulation (2016/679) - Annex 1

16th January 2019

The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) welcomes comments on the Annex 1 to the Guidelines 4/2018 on the accreditation of certification bodies under Article 43 of the General Data Protection Regulation (2016/679). Comments should be sent to the EDPB by 01 February 2019 at the latest. ...

The following is a list of case studies, by year, as featured in Annual Reports published by this Office. These case studies provide an insight into some of the issues that this Office investigates on a day to day basis. For ease of reference, some of the case studies have been indexed by categories below.

Data Protection Commission opens statutory inquiry into Facebook

17th December 2018

The Data Protection Commission has received a number of breach notifications from Facebook since the introduction of the GDPR on 25 May  2018. With reference to these data breaches, including the most recent breach received, we have this week commenced a statutory inquiry examining Facebook’s compliance with the relevant provisions of the GDPR.  ...