# data-protection - Wednesday 4 May, 2022
# Data Protection
The Data Protection Commission is looking at use of free travel pass data, writes Maria Delaney Noteworthy investigation reveals the Department had a database of free travel journeys until 2020 We also find Leap card system usage records, including journey data, are being retained for over a year
# data-protection - Thursday 31 March, 2022
# Imposters
# Imposters
The hackers falsified “emergency data requests” to obtain the information.
# data-protection - Tuesday 15 March, 2022
# Meta
# Meta
The fine follows a DPC inquiry into 12 data breach notifications received between June and December 2018.
# data-protection - Wednesday 15 September, 2021
# Data Protection
# Data Protection
The second inquiry will focus on transfers by TikTok of personal data to China.
# data-protection - Tuesday 24 August, 2021
# Investigation
# Investigation
The Public Services Card was brought in in 2011.
# data-protection - Wednesday 18 August, 2021
# Selling Our Genes
# Selling Our Genes
The Ireland Strategic Investment Fund had invested €66m in the private genetics company acquired in a deal announced yesterday.
# data-protection - Thursday 29 July, 2021
# Data Protection
# Data Protection
The biobank will allow researchers to have access to the virus samples that are collected.
# data-protection - Tuesday 13 July, 2021
# Information And Tracing
# Information And Tracing
Survivors of Mother and Baby Homes have said “the right to truth is key”, an Oireachtas Committee heard today.
# data-protection - Tuesday 22 June, 2021
# Vaccines
# Vaccines
The Data Protection Commission said the processing of vaccine data by employers likely represents “unnecessary and excessive data collection”.
# data-protection - Monday 7 June, 2021
# Data Protection
# Data Protection
The Data Protection Commissioner raised concerns about the handling of survivor testimony and delays in responding to queries.
# data-protection - Sunday 6 June, 2021
# Cyber Breach
# Cyber Breach
The Data Protection Commission has been notified of the breach and Apache Pizza said they will contact gardaí.
# data-protection - Friday 28 May, 2021
# Data Protection
# Data Protection
The department is asking for individuals’ contact details in case their data is in records requested under GDPR.
# data-protection - Wednesday 19 May, 2021
# The Good Information Project
# The Good Information Project
Observers say the new rules could give China stronger privacy protections than the US.
# data-protection - Tuesday 27 April, 2021
# Data
# Data
An Oireachtas committee will discuss data protection law later this evening.
# data-protection - Friday 23 April, 2021
# Data Protection
# Data Protection
The so-called “Abú system” has become the source of controversy in recent days.
# data-protection - Friday 16 April, 2021
# Android
# Android
Google is considering an appeal of the ruling.
# data-protection - Friday 9 April, 2021
# DATA LEAK
# DATA LEAK
More than 1.5 million Irish users have been affected by the breach.
# data-protection - Thursday 11 March, 2021
# Data Breach
# Data Breach
Customer data relating to more than 400,000 parcel deliveries was accessed by hackers.
# data-protection - Thursday 25 February, 2021
# Data Protection
# Data Protection
The Data Protection Commission released its annual report for 2020 earlier today.
# Department Of Children
# Department Of Children
Around 100,000 records are expected to be moved to the Department of Children next week.
# data-protection - Thursday 4 February, 2021
# Mother-and-baby Homes
# Mother-and-baby Homes
There have been calls for the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes to not be dissolved at the end of the month.
# data-protection - Thursday 7 January, 2021
# Home Security
# Home Security
Helen Dixon said domestic CCTV is “an issue that really bothers people”.
# data-protection - Friday 13 November, 2020
# Data Protection Commission
# Data Protection Commission
The case against the DPC was launched in the High Court on Tuesday.
# data-protection - Sunday 4 October, 2020
# Selling Our Genes
# Selling Our Genes
Hospitals and universities across Ireland are collaborating with Genuity Science due to, experts say, lack of a public project or strategy.
# Noteworthy.ie
# Noteworthy.ie
Ireland still has a chance to take control of genomics research – if it follows this advice.
# data-protection - Friday 11 September, 2020
# Data Protection
# Data Protection
The DPC told Facebook this week to stop transferring data belonging to European Union users to the US.
# data-protection - Thursday 10 September, 2020
# Data Protection Commission
# Data Protection Commission
The social media giant said the Data Protection Commission told it the key mechanism it uses to transfer data to the US “cannot in practice be used”.
# data-protection - Monday 17 August, 2020
# Child And Family Agency
# Child And Family Agency
The vast majority of the cases involved an “employee error or omission”.
# data-protection - Thursday 16 July, 2020
# ECJ
# ECJ
The US Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross said his department was “deeply disappointed” by the court ruling.
# Max Schrems
# Max Schrems
The ruling on this case could have significant implications for how data is transferred between the EU and the US.
# data-protection - Sunday 10 May, 2020
# Covid-19
# Covid-19
The app will be opt-in and support, rather than replace, current contact tracing processes.
# data-protection - Monday 24 February, 2020
# Data Protection
# Data Protection
Discussions are underway with the Data Protection Commissioner about managing customer’s personal data.
# data-protection - Wednesday 12 February, 2020
# Data Protection Commission
# Data Protection Commission
The app was due to launch tomorrow, the day before Valentine’s Day.
# data-protection - Tuesday 4 February, 2020
# Data Processing
# Data Processing
The two inquiries were announced by the Data Protection Commission today.
# data-protection - Wednesday 20 November, 2019
# Cardiff
# Cardiff
Ed Bridges says his face was scanned while doing Christmas shopping in 2017 and at a protest in 2018.
# Data Protection
# Data Protection
The ICCL said a PSC requirement forces people “to hand over their data in exchange for services to which they are already entitled”.
# data-protection - Wednesday 18 September, 2019
# PSC
# PSC
The long-awaited report into the card was published yesterday evening.
# data-protection - Friday 13 September, 2019
# Podcast
# Podcast
It’s a saga that has been rumbling on for years – but what exactly is it all about?
# data-protection - Thursday 5 September, 2019
# Public Services Card
# Public Services Card
The government is challenging the findings of a landmark report into the legality of the card.
# data-protection - Saturday 24 August, 2019
# Data Protection
# Data Protection
The books were banned from sites such as Dublin Castle and Kilmainham Gaol over data privacy concerns.