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WhatsApp has issued legal proceedings challenging the €225m fine it was hit with by Ireland’s data watchdog for breaching privacy regulations. The penalty, which was announced earlier this month, was the largest ever handed down by the Data ...

16 Sept 2021 at 16:30

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How to check if you are one of the 1.5 million Irish users involved in Facebook's data leak

Over the weekend, personal data of upwards of 533 million worldwide Facebook users - including an estimated 1.5 million Irish users - was published online. The information included phone numbers, Facebook IDs, names, locations, birthdates, ...

08 Apr 2021 at 11:19

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WhatsApp challenges €225 million fine

16 Sept 2021 at 16:59

National News

Gardai and Fastway among those reprimanded by watchdog for data breaches in 2022

An Garda Siochana and the Fastway delivery firm are among the organisations that were reprimanded over data breaches, according to a watchdog’s annual report. Gardai reported a breach to the Data Protection Commission (DPC) involving ...

07 Mar 2023 at 00:01

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LinkedIn fined 310 million euros by Data Protection Commission

Ireland’s data watchdog has fined networking site LinkedIn 310 million euros and ordered it to bring its data processing into compliance with EU law following a probe into how it deals with users’ data. The Data Protection ...

24 Oct 2024 at 14:40

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TikTok faces fresh European privacy investigation over China data transfers

TikTok is facing a fresh European Union privacy investigation into user data sent to China, regulators said. The Data Protection Commission (DPC) opened the inquiry as a follow-up to a previous investigation that ended ...

10 Jul 2025 at 18:14

Irish data watchdog fines Meta Ireland 390m euro

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Irish data watchdog to seek order to annul ‘problematic’ EU authority direction

Ireland’s data watchdog has fined Facebook’s parent company Meta Ireland 390 million euro as a row erupted over whether further investigation of the use of people’s data is warranted. Meta Ireland was fined 210 ...

04 Jan 2023 at 16:37

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MEP deported from Israel raises data privacy concerns with Irish EU Commissioner

An Irish MEP who was refused entry to Israel and the West Bank has written to Ireland’s EU Commissioner to express “serious questions” about a data privacy arrangement with Israel. Dublin MEP Lynn Boylan also ...

26 Feb 2025 at 12:32

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Meta fined more than 250 million euro by Irish data commission following breach

Meta has been fined more than 250 million euro (£206 million) by the Irish Data Protection Commission over a data breach. The breach affected approximately 29 million Facebook accounts globally, of which ...

17 Dec 2024 at 19:08

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TikTok fined 530 million euro by Ireland’s watchdog

Irish data protection authorities have fined TikTok 530 million euro for transferring the European users’ personal data to China, following a long investigation. The Irish Data Protection Commission ...

02 May 2025 at 11:45

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Data watchdog to investigate X’s Grok AI tool

Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has begun an investigation into the Grok artificial intelligence model on the X social media platform. The inquiry will examine the processing of personal ...

11 Apr 2025 at 16:42

National News

Sinn Fein says Government ‘facilitating’ failures at CHI amid data probe

The Government “facilitates” failures at Children’s Health Ireland (CHI), Sinn Fein has said, as the State data watchdog launched a probe into its handling of child health records. The Data ...

14 Aug 2025 at 19:39

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