Here you will find all the articles with the tag: DPC.
Ireland's data protection authority says generative AI needs to be regulated, not banned. Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner (DPC), Helen Dixon, has come out against issuing bans on generative AI services such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT. She instead insists that proper regulation is all that's ... Read more
5 months ago
The EC's data protection board has ordered the Irish regulator to make an order by the end of This week Reuters reported that European Union regulators have given Ireland's data regulator one month to issue an order on blocking Facebook's transatlantic data flows. Helen Dixon, Ireland's Data... Read more
5 months ago
The US tech giant is yielding to EU pressure to comply with privacy laws, because the alternative is to pay a hefty fine. This week Meta announced that it will allow Facebook and Instagram users in Europe to request an exemption from the platforms' data collection system, which Meta uses to targ... Read more
6 months ago
Ireland's data protection authority slapped WhatsApp with a €5.5 million fine. The Meta subsidiary is accused of illegally processing personal data. Earlier this month, Meta was fined €390 million for years of GDPR violations. The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) ruled that Meta used a... Read more
8 months ago
The Irish Data Protection Authority (DPA) wants to convict Yahoo of AVG/GDPR violations. According to the watchdog, Yahoo's websites offered insufficient options to refuse cookie tracking in recent years. Yahoo has been under investigation by the Irish DPA since 2019. The watchdog wants to conv... Read more
11 months ago
Facebook and Instagram are staying online for the foreseeable future. The Irish Data Protection Authority (DPA) wants to tighten the reins on Meta, but not every member state supports its case. Ireland's DPA proposed a ban on intercontinental data transfers from Meta in July, threatening to remo... Read more
1 year ago
The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined Facebook's parent company, Meta, €17 million ($18.6 million) for a series of past data breaches. The security flaws in question, which appear to have impacted up to 30 million Facebook users, trace back many years and were reported to the Ir... Read more
2 years ago
Since the introduction of the GDPR, Ireland's Data Protection Commission has been swamped with work to enforce the regulations. However, due to the abundance of cases to investigate, privacy authorities are said to be too slow to act on violations. With many tech giants deciding to locate their ... Read more
2 years ago
Beuc, the European consumer protection umbrella group, published a new report on the obstacles standing in the way of effective cross-border enforcement of the EU's flagship data protection plan. The report makes for awkward reading for lawmakers and regulators as they work towards a comprehensi... Read more
3 years ago
The Irish watchdog Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) has opened a third privacy investigation into Apple, writes Reuters. The purpose of the investigation is to determine whether Apple complies with the relevant provisions of the European GDPR Privacy Act when a customer requests access. The other ... Read more
4 years ago
