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A number of international human rights and consumer rights organisations, including Amnesty International, have criticised proposed new confidentiality provisions in Data Protection Commission investigations, audits, complaints and inquiries.
By Padraic Halpin DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland bolstered its powerful data regulator's ability to stop the sharing of information during its inquiries i...
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Civil liberties campaigners said an amendment was an effort to ‘muzzle’ critics of complaints process
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland bolstered its powerful data regulator's ability to stop the sharing of information during its inquiries into global tech companies amid criticism from opposition parties, privacy activists and non-governmental organisations.
Ireland bolstered its powerful data regulator's ability to stop the sharing of information during its inquiries into global tech companies amid criticism from opposition parties, privacy activists and non-governmental organisations. Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) is the European Union's lead regulator of many of the world's largest technology companies due to their EU headquarters being based in Ireland, and has levied billions of euros worth of fines under the bloc's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), introduced in 2018.