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Data Protection Commission Ireland
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Data Protection Commission Ireland
@DPCIreland
Ireland's independent supervisory authority for data protection.
Social Media Policy: bit.ly/3CVqpGp
Queries/Complaints: forms.dataprotection.ie
- How will the EU's new #dataprotection rules affect you or your business? It's law May 2018. gdprandyou.ie #GDPR #personaldata #law
00:00 - Facebook data breach. The DPC is concerned that this breach was discovered on Tuesday & affects millions of users. At present Facebook is unable to clarify the nature of the breach & risk to users. We are pressing Facebook to urgently clarify these matters. #dataprotection
- Investigation commenced into Facebook data breach. @DPCIreland statement beneath. #dataprotection #GDPR #eudatap
- Irish Government publishes #DataProtection Bill 2018. Purpose of the Bill is to give further effect to #GDPR in Irish law, transpose the “law enforcement” Directive & to give further legislative underpinning to structures & functions of @DPCIreland. Link - oireachtas.ie/viewdoc.asp?Do…
- Measures to control and prevent the spread of COVID-19 will involve more people working remotely than usual. Read our guide to protecting personal data when working remotely dataprotection.ie/en/news-media/…
- The DPC welcomes the decision by Meta to pause its plans to train its large language model using public content shared by adults on Facebook and Instagram across the EU/EEA. This decision followed intensive engagement between the DPC and Meta. Read 👉 dataprotection.ie/en/news-media/…
- .@DPCIreland is awaiting from Facebook further urgent details of the security breach impacting some 50m users, including details of EU users which have been affected, so that we can properly assess the nature of the breach and risk to users. #dataprotection #GDPR #eudatapAt least 50mln #Facebook users were compromised in the huge security breach. I urge Facebook to fully cooperate with @DPCIreland. We need to know if EU users were affected and what had happened to their data. Here a reminder about the obligations of biz ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-t…
- Statement from Helen Dixon on her reappointment as Commissioner for Data Protection dataprotection.ie/en/news-media/…
- In the nick of time! #DataProtection Bill is passed by the Oireachtas (Irish Parliament) & will now go to the President to be signed into law. Gives further effect to #GDPR, transposes law enforcement Directive & gives further underpinning to structures & functions of @DPCIreland
- UPDATE Facebook data breach - @DPCIreland understands that the number of potentially affected EU accounts is less than 10% of the 50 million accounts in total potentially affected by the security breach. DPC Ireland statement beneath. #dataprotection #GDPR #EUdataP
- We were delighted to welcome the ICO's Elizabeth Denham who spoke to DPC staff earlier today about the GDPR one year on.
- The DPC has issued an important message for any organisation or body that transfers personal data to and from the UK, including Northern Ireland, in the event of a 'no deal' Brexit dataprotection.ie/en/news-media/…
- New Decision 📝 Irish Data Protection Commission announces €345 million fine of TikTok. Press release 👉 dataprotection.ie/en/news-media/…
