The European Court of Justice has found against the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) in a case relating to the processing of people’s intimate data by Meta.
Enforce’s recommendations to Ursula von der Leyen on Tech
Practical steps to rapidly harness Europe’s legal toolkit to confront Tech published today by President von der Leyen’s own CDU Party’s think tank.
Lessons of EU tech regulation shared with Australian Senate
Lessons of EU’s Big Tech enforcement failure shared with Australian Senate inquiry by ICCL
Rights News 2021: 45 years of the human rights movement in Ireland
14 January 2022 As Ireland grapples with the challenges posed by a global pandemic and government responses to that, we bring you an update on ICCL’s work since February 2021. Not only that, we celebrate 45 years since ICCL was …
Europe’s Wild West: damning new stats on Big Tech in Ireland
ICCL report exposes a data free-for-all for companies like Google and Facebook 13 September 2021 Europe is unable to police how big tech firms use people’s data, and Ireland is Europe’s Wild West when it comes to data protection. That’s …
New US Senate Bill may stop Ireland processing US data, unless Ireland acts on GDPR enforcement
Ireland’s digital sector threatened by a proposed requirement that data protection law must be properly enforced. This afternoon United States Senator Ron Wyden has proposed a new Bill to impose export controls on personal data about people in the US to …
Questions about Facebook’s acquisition of Kustomer
We have written to Facebook ‘s Chief Privacy Officer, Michel Protti, to ask what FB will do with the data it gains when it acquires health & education chatbot company “Kustomer”.Facebook is acquiring a company called Kustomer. We fear that …
EU Civil Liberties Committee calls on Commission to begin infringement proceedings against Ireland over data rights
4 February 2021 The EU’s Parliamentary Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE), composed of over 50 MEPs, has prepared a hard-hitting motion against the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), calling on the European Commission to launch an …
ICCL alerts Irish Government of strategic economic risk from failure to uphold the GDPR
This note makes public a letter to the Irish Government describing how Ireland is being sidestepped as a regulatory center. EU Member States are sidestepping Ireland to enforce the GDPR. This threatens Ireland’s position in the global digital economy. It also …
Digital Markets Act may create dangerous loopholes for Big Tech data use
ICCL writes to the European Parliament and to the European Commission to highlight loopholes in the proposed Digital Markets Act. On 15 December 2020 the European Commission published a proposal for a Digital Markets Act, intended to correct digital market problems. These …
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