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Data Protection Commission announces conclusion of inquiry into WhatsApp

19th January 2023

The Data Protection Commission (“DPC”) has today announced the conclusion of an inquiry into the processing carried out by WhatsApp Ireland Limited (“WhatsApp Ireland”) in connection with the delivery of its WhatsApp service, in which it has fined WhatsApp Ireland €5.5 million (for breaches of the GDPR relating to its service). ...

Data Protection Commission announces conclusion of two inquiries into Meta Ireland

04th January 2023

The Data Protection Commission (DPC) has today announced the conclusion of two inquiries into the data processing operations of Meta Platforms Ireland Limited (“Meta Ireland”) in connection with the delivery of its Facebook and Instagram services. (Meta Ireland was previously known as Facebook Ireland Limited). ...

Data Protection Commission launches inquiry into Twitter concerning datasets

23rd December 2022

The Data Protection Commission (‘the DPC’) today launched an own-volition inquiry pursuant to section 110 of the Data Protection Act 2018 (‘the Act’) in relation to multiple international media reports, which highlighted that one or more collated datasets of Twitter user personal data had been made available on the internet. ...

Publications

In this section, you will find reports published by the Data Protection Commission (DPC).

The ‘annual report’ sub-section contains all the annual reports published by the DPC each year since the application of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on 25 May 2018. Reports published prior to the application of the GDPR can be found in the Pre-GDPR Annual Reports section of our website.

Irish DPC submits Article 60 draft decision on inquiry into Meta

03rd October 2022

The Data Protection Commission (DPC) has submitted a draft decision in a large scale inquiry into Meta Platforms Ireland Limited (“MPIL”) to other Concerned Supervisory Authorities across the EU. This inquiry was commenced in April 2021 after media reports highlighted that a collated dataset of Facebook user personal data had been made available on the internet. ...