The Data Protection Commission (DPC) reprimanded the Department of Social Protection by issuing istrative fines totalling €550,000.

The judge, who heads the Commercial Court, also granted TikTok an application to have the case itted to the fast track commercial list The court heard there was no objection to entry from the DPC.

The breaches occurred across the department including key areas like international protection, the response to the Ukraine refugee crisis, and in citizenship applications

The DPC said that of all fines issued between 2020 and the end of October this year, only €19.9 million of the total has been paid so far.

The inquiry examined LinkedIn’s processing of personal data for the purposes of behavioural analysis and targeted advertising of s.

The DPC said it hoped to bring staff up to 260 by the end of this year and to 320 by the end of 2025.

The issue applied to millions of Facebook and Instagram s.

Taoiseach Simon Harris is to chair a summit at Government Buildings.

The Data Protection Commission is to examine whether an assessment needed to be carried out before people’s data was processed.

The Data Protection Commission has welcomed the outcome of prosecution proceedings that were taken in Galway District Court this week.

The DPC is the lead EU regulator for a number of major international tech firms, including Google, Meta, Microsoft, TikTok and OpenAI

Meta has brought a statutory appeal the fines imposed by the Data Protection Commission for breach of EU privacy rules

Google Ireland says it wrote to the DPC outlining its concerns regarding the validity and issibility of the DPC's complaints

In internal submissions, officials said the Department of Health could have been hit with a fine of up to €1 million

Any failure to comply with the enforcement notice is a criminal offence, and could also see the company being fined

Max Schrems is an Austrian lawyer and activist with the privacy rights organisation NOYB

TikTok's action is against the decision to impose the fine over how some of its privacy settings and features complied with obligations under the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

The fine was in respect of TikTok's privacy settings in relation to GDPR

The social media platform said it ‘respectfully disagreed’ with the level of the fine imposed by the DPC.

There were also dozens of cases of information being sent to the wrong address by the tax authority

The judge extended a stay on the Data Protection Commission's decision until July 31st

That decision followed a successful legal challenge by Austrian privacy campaigner, Max Schrems, over concerns that EEA s’ data is not sufficiently protected from US intelligence agencies when it is transferred across the Atlantic.

The Irish Council for Civil Liberties claims that Ireland remains a ‘bottleneck’ for GDPR enforcement.

The Data Protection Commission said there were 5,828 GDPR data breaches reported last year, down 12% on 2021.

Fire prevention officer Eamon McShane, of Burtonport, Co Donegal, claims his personal email and “Binance” were hacked, with some €1,400 worth of cryptocurrency stolen

The Irish arm of IT giant Meta has gone to court over a decision by the Data Protection Commission to fine it €405 million

The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has indicated "a preliminary range of fines" to be imposed on the Irish arm of TikTok, concerning its investigation into how the social media giant processes children’s data.

Man takes action against DPC over its alleged failure to complete a probe into complaint against Catholic Church.

Approximately 1,000 gardaí will be recruited in 2023

Data Protection Commissioner Helen Dixon said the long-running criticisms are ‘becoming old news’.

The watchdog said it will publish further details on its investigation next week

The current commissioner Helen Dixon is to be made chairwoman of the Data Protection Commission