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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.  ...
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