Oracle claims to have amassed dossiers on 5 billion people, and generates $42.4 billion in annual revenue. ICCL’s Dr Johnny Ryan is a lead plaintiff in a new U.S. class action to stop its global surveillance machine.
Ireland’s lax data protection enforcement may deprive digital sector of US data
Senior U.S. Senators have introduced legislation to protect American citizens’ data from being processed in countries with lax data protection enforcement. This threatens Ireland’s digital sector.
ICCL reveals that the An Post & OSI company “GeoDirectory” uses Census data to profile every Irish home, for sale to data brokers and insurance companies. ICCL has lodged a complaint with the DPC
The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) reveals that An Post & OSI use Census data to profile every Irish home and sell ‘location intelligence’ to data brokers and insurance companies. ICCL has lodged a complaint with the DPC.
Privacy and competition leaders sign emergency ICCL letter to fix the EU Digital Markets Act
ICCL draws together competition & privacy leaders to urge EU co-legislators to correct the EU Digital Markets Act in an emergency letter this morning.
Remarks by Johnny Ryan at the CRA “Disrupted Times” Conference in Brussels
4 April 2022 Dr Johnny Ryan of ICCL spoke at a gathering of global antitrust regulators and experts on 31 March in Brussels. He set out two challenges for the European Commission: First, use the tools in the GDPR to analyse …
ICCL sues DPC over failure to act on massive Google data breach
The DPC failed to act on a complaint against Google’s huge RTB data breach. Now, over 3 years later, ICCL is taking the DPC to court to compel it to finally act.
Demand to global brand CEOs: stop unlawful consent spam and delete the data
ICCL & EPIC write to CEOs of P&G, Unilever, AT&T, BoA, Chevrolet, Ford, GM, IBM, and Mastercard, demanding they stop consent spam and delete data.
GDPR enforcers rule that IAB Europe’s consent popups are unlawful
EU data protection authorities find that the consent popups that plagued Europeans for years are illegal. All data collected through them must be deleted. This decision impacts Google’s, Amazon’s and Microsoft’s online advertising businesses.
ICCL launches European Ombudsman complaint against European Commission’s failure to take Ireland to court over the GDPR.
ICCL has launched a formal complaint against the European Commission before the European Ombudsman. The Commission has failed to monitor the application of the GDPR, and to intervene against Ireland’s failure to properly apply the law.
Tracking-industry body IAB Europe told that it has infringed the GDPR, and its “consent” pop-ups used by Google and other tech firms are unlawful.
Google and the entire tracking industry relies on IAB Europe’s consent system, which has now been found to be illegal. Update: final decision published on 2 February 2022. See note. 5 November 2021. We have won. The online advertising industry and its …