# data-protection - Friday 14 June, 2013
A group of Irish online publishers say draft European laws could force users to register just to see the homepage of a website.
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# data-protection - Monday 10 June, 2013
Billy Hawkes said that his concern might be that there would be an abuse of powers that have been granted for legitimate reasons.
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# data-protection - Friday 7 June, 2013
Revelations in the US have started a privacy debate in recent days.
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# data-protection - Thursday 6 June, 2013
The EU’s justice commissioner says Ireland has been more committed than most to making diplomatic progress.
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# data-protection - Monday 20 May, 2013
Here are the things we learned, loved and shared today.
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One HSE employee searched the social welfare records of their son’s girlfriend.
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# data-protection - Monday 18 March, 2013
Good morning. Here are the nine stories you need to know at the start of this Bank Holiday Monday.
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A High Court judgement is being hailed as a landmark ruling which makes businesses legally liable for data protection breaches.
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# data-protection - Saturday 16 February, 2013
The social networking giant said it found no evidence any user data was compromised.
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# data-protection - Thursday 14 February, 2013
ComReg and the Data Protection Commissioner say because the calls came from abroad, they can take no action against them.
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# data-protection - Saturday 2 February, 2013
# data-protection - Monday 28 January, 2013
Labour’s Phil Prendergast says the new graph search may be a breach of a citizen’s right to protect their personal data.
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# data-protection - Wednesday 19 December, 2012
The Commissioner has sent letters to 80 websites requesting information on how they have met their obligations under the law since July 2011.
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# data-protection - Wednesday 12 December, 2012
Max Schrems and his group, ‘Europe v Facebook’, is preparing legal action against the Irish Data Protection Commissioner over its recent audit of Facebook and its privacy policy.
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# data-protection - Tuesday 4 December, 2012
The mobile phone company, which has 1.6 million customers in Ireland, says there is a “low risk to customer data privacy” and says the tape is likely to be still in an O2 building.
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Leveson’s recommendations on data protection have been largely overlooked – but could have serious implications even here, writes Seamus Dooley.
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# data-protection - Tuesday 27 November, 2012
Good morning. Here are the nine stories you need to know as you start your day.
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The Data Protection Commissioner said it has reshuffled staff to deal with the rising volume of complaints.
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# data-protection - Friday 23 November, 2012
The Data Protection Commissioner has continued to receive complaints about the automated phone calls but says it may be unable to take action.
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# data-protection - Thursday 22 November, 2012
Listen to a full recording of the message…
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# data-protection - Tuesday 23 October, 2012
The data watchdog has asked the manufacturer of potentially vulnerable software to provide a full list of affected schools.
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# data-protection - Saturday 20 October, 2012
A single username and password can be used to log into dozens of school management systems, TheJournal.ie can reveal.
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# data-protection - Friday 21 September, 2012
Billy Hawkes’s office published the findings of its latest audit on the social media giant today.
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# data-protection - Monday 17 September, 2012
The Data Protection Commissioner settles a complaint with Vodafone over breaches of laws on unsolicited marketing.
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# data-protection - Saturday 15 September, 2012
The Data Protection Commissioner here is finalising a report on the social media giant, writes Eoin Lynch, and the findings will be closely watched by the tech-business world…
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# data-protection - Wednesday 12 September, 2012
Ireland’s data regulator is looking for expert advice regarding the potential impact communications and security technologies are likely to have on data protection rights.
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The ‘bad bank’ is taking High Court action against a former employee who is alleged to have taken data without authorisation.
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# data-protection - Tuesday 12 June, 2012
The personal information of around 900 Bord Gais employees was on the laptop which was stolen from the Dublin 1 office earlier this month.
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# data-protection - Wednesday 30 May, 2012
Andy Coulson detained by Scottish police at his home in London.
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# data-protection - Wednesday 9 May, 2012
A dispute over Data Protection issues has been settled and bills will be issued immediately.
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# data-protection - Monday 30 April, 2012
Billy Hawkes said his office received 1,161 complaints for investigation last year.
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# data-protection - Friday 9 March, 2012
London police have arrested a man suspected of hacking into the website of a major British abortion provider, vandalising it, and stealing sensitive data – including names, addresses, and phone numbers.
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# data-protection - Tuesday 6 March, 2012
The Department of Justice is asking people to submit their views on the European Commission’s proposals to strengthen protections for individuals
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# data-protection - Thursday 1 March, 2012
The European Union justice commissioner has raised doubts about the legality of the changes the search giant has made to its privacy policy today.
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# data-protection - Friday 24 February, 2012
Barack Obama called on companies like Facebook and Google to engage with privacy advocates in order to establish voluntary codes of conduct aimed at protecting users.
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# data-protection - Saturday 18 February, 2012
The travel agency’s website had briefly shown details of some of its online customers, including passport details, to the public.
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# data-protection - Monday 13 February, 2012
Three insurance companies admit to using a PI who illegally sourced data from within the Department of Social Protection.
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# data-protection - Wednesday 25 January, 2012
O2 admitted that it had accidentally leaked online the mobile numbers of some customers in the UK.
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# data-protection - Thursday 5 January, 2012
Phil Hogan was responding to criticisms by the Data Protection Commissioner earlier today who said it was a “somewhat disturbing development” that the gov
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Billy Hawkes said the State’s possible use of the ESB to gather information to collect the household charge is a “disturbing development”.
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