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Send us your ideas: Data Protection Officers

02nd May 2019
This call for submissions is now closed while we process the submissions received. The Data Protection Commission wants to hear your thoughts about the DPO role. ...
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Examination of Right to Rectification complaints

30th April 2019
In light of increased awareness of the rights granted to individuals under the new data protection legislation, this note intends to clarify aspects of the right to rectification of personal data. In particular, this note examines the case of recording of names of individuals that contain diacritical marks (for example, fadas in the Irish language). ...
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Data Protection Commission opens statutory inquiry into Facebook

25th April 2019
The Data Protection Commission was notified by Facebook that it had discovered that hundreds of millions of user passwords, relating to users of Facebook, Facebook Lite and Instagram, were stored by Facebook in plain text format in its internal servers. We have this week commenced a statutory inquiry in relation to this issue to determine whether Facebook has complied with its obligations under ...
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Taking photos at school events – Where common sense comes into play

12th April 2019
The introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has triggered a significant shift in people’s perception of data protection, and organisations across all types of sectors are contending with different challenges in terms of ensuring they are balancing their interests with the rights of individuals around their personal data. ...
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Global Privacy Enforcement Network (GPEN) 2018 ‘Sweep’

05th March 2019
In 2018, the Global Privacy Enforcement Network’s (GPEN) annual intelligence gathering operation, called a ‘Sweep’, examined organisations’ self-reporting of their implementation of the core concepts of accountability. In short, the study looked at how they considered they have taken responsibility for complying with data protection laws. ...
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