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Meta lobbies Taoiseach and Tánaiste over EU ban on data transfers

The owner of Facebook has asked Leo Varadkar, Micheál Martin and Simon Coveney for support in bid to help prevent a EU ban on it sending users’ information to the United States

DPC moves on ChatGPT after software banned by Italian privacy watchdog

Commission says it will coordinate with other European data protection authorities as concerns grow over the amount of data that services like ChatGPT consume from users around the world

Coveney contacted TikTok over data security after European Commission ban

The Minister for Enterprise spoke to the company about its data protection practices after it insisted it would never share users’ data with the Chinese state

TikTok contacting Irish politicians in plan to reassure Europeans over data security

The Chinese-owned social media app is attempting to convince authorities it would never share users’ data with the Chinese government

New GoMo app to eliminate roaming fees for Irish tourists outside the EU

The service will offer data bundles in 160 countries, including the US, Canada and Australia

European Commission to seek regular updates from data watchdogs on Big Tech investigations

Irish Data Protection Commission has already been providing bimonthly updates to the European Commission since 2021

Data Protection Commission fines WhatsApp €5.5m for privacy breaches after another dispute with EU regulators

The Irish watchdog has served Meta’s platform with a comparatively small penalty because it has previously fined it €225m for similar issues

Data Protection Commission and Meta emerge bruised from EU privacy punch-up

The Irish regulator fined Instagram and Facebook a combined €390 million for breaches of the GDPR in its use of personal data for advertising – but only after it was effectively forced to by other European data agencies

Irish Data Protection Commission contacts Twitter after hackers reportedly leak 235m email addresses

Regulator said it had not established whether the apparent new leak would form part of an investigation it launched into an earlier batch of Twitter leaks last December

DPC set for fresh dispute with EU counterparts as it seeks order blocking new Meta inquiry

The Data Protection Commission has been told to increase its fines on Facebook and Instagram, and launch a new investigation

Irish data watchdog increases fines on Meta to €390m after EU regulator rejects draft decision

Watchdog increased the penalties, which bring the total amount levied against the company to over €1bn, following a dispute with other EU regulators over the Facebook owner’s processing of users’ personal data

Tusla broke public spending code with €400,000 contract

Child and family agency paid a privacy company to deal with data subject access requests related to data breaches arising from the HSE ransomware attack and the publication of the mother and baby home report

Knowledge is power: data analytics has become the key skill to have

Where there’s data there are people analysing it. Fiona Alston takes a look at the demands of having some data analyst experience in your skills arsenal

Fáilte Ireland plans to use mobile data to gather information on tourists’ movements

Tourism agency also wants to gather statistics on the Irish people leaving to holiday abroad through ‘strictly’ anonymised phone data

Civil servants told not to have work conversations with smart speakers in the room

IT policy for public servants says to avoid having meetings in the same room as Alexa or Google Home due to concerns they may record what is said and pass the information onto their parent companies

Varadkar told Facebook that Ireland was ‘working hard’ to retain control of EU tech regulation

Tánaiste assured Facebook that Ireland wanted to stay at the forefront of regulating tech firms – something the company said was a ‘vital’ issue

DPC says Schrems must clarify plans for Facebook complaint documents as matter of ‘urgency’

Solicitor’s letter issued to Schrems relates to an ongoing dispute over a privacy complaint against Facebook relating to GDPR

John Walsh: Sovereignty is not the best policy in regulating tech giants

No single member state has the capacity to deal with these Goliaths: we need the clout of an EU-wide agency

Deep tech in transition

Core banking technologies are being updated with new methodologies that bring out existing strengths

Budget 2022 visualised: How your money will be spent

Health and social protection continues to dominate, while transport spend is reduced