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The Data Protection Commission has endured no shortage of opprobrium under the leadership of Helen Dixon. Its new bosses might be about to find out just how tough it is at the apex of privacy regulation
Alexander Hanff wants to be clear: he’s not bitter about being rejected for the job of Irish Data Protection Commissioner.
But the British-born privacy campaigner and member of the European Data Protection Board’s pool of external experts is certainly disappointed that his application was unsuccessful.
“It was something I absolutely wanted,” Hanff told the Business Post.
“You’d be working with one of the most relevant regulators within the EU when it comes to the number ...
