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Data protection and canvassing

10th May 2019

Ireland is a democracy and it is very important that politicians are able to communicate with voters ahead of the upcoming local and European elections. However, where personal data are being used for electoral purposes, those doing so must respect the individual’s right to data protection and must abide by their responsibilities as data controllers under data protection law. ...

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 ...