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Public Consultation on the DPC’s Regulatory Strategy 2020-2025 – Consultation on Target Outcomes

04th December 2019

We are currently preparing our new Regulatory Strategy, to cover the period from 2020 to 2025. We want our new strategy to ensure that we regulate with clear purpose – clear to the people whose rights we safeguard, clear to the organisations that we regulate, and clear to ourselves and our fellow regulators. ...

Data Breach Trends from the First Year of the GDPR

21st October 2019

This information note is intended to give an overview of the trends observed by the Data Protection Commission (DPC) over the first year of the mandatory breach reporting regime introduced by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The statistics and trends discussed below capture all data breach notifications received in the first year since the 25th of May 2018. ...

Right to compensation and liability

04th October 2019

The Data Protection Commission (DPC) regularly receives queries from individuals about whether they can get compensation if their personal data rights have been infringed. Whilst the DPC has a suite of powers at its disposal to resolve complaints and take action against organisations, it cannot award compensation to affected individuals. ...