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A Record-Breaking Year: the Data Protection Commission’s Annual Report 2025
DPC's 2025 annual report shows a 45% complaints rise, AI-driven complaints, fewer breaches, growing inter-regulatory role, and reprimands.
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Defamation & Reputation Management 2025 Local Expert Guide
William Fry's Litigation & Investigations department has contributed to Lexology Panoramic: Defamation & Reputation Management 2025 local expert gu...
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Navigating Age Assurance: Another Layer, Insights from the EDPB
On 11 February 2025 the EDPB issued its first meaningful statement on age assurance in the digital environment.
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William Fry Data Protection Day Update 2022
Council of Europe's annual Data Protection Day 2022: we unpack the key data protection stories of 2021 and look ahead to what to expect in 2022.
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William Fry Data Protection Day Update 2021
Ahead of the Council of Europe's annual Data Protection Day on 28 January 2021, we unpack the key data protection stories of 2020 and look ahead to...
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William Fry Data Protection Day Update 2020
To mark International Data Protection Day 2020, our Technology & Data Protection team round-up some of the key data protection stories of 2019 and ...
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The Fine Line in GDPR and its Impact on Businesses’ Risk Analyses
Reported data breaches in Europe rose by almost 20% in 2020. Ireland, as host to many large technology and social media companies, ranked as the t...
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Subject Access Request: Data Protection Commission Decision is set aside by the Circuit Court
The Circuit Court recently set aside a decision of the Data Protection Commission for failing to comply with fair procedures in arriving at its fin...
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Reporters are Reminded of Right to Privacy While Being Investigated
A recent English Court of Appeal confirms that people subject to investigations are entitled to a reasonable expectation of privacy. We examine the...
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Pensions Winter Briefing
In their Winter Briefing, our Pensions team provides an insight into some of the key legal developments we expect to see in the Irish pensions sect...
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Injecting Some Clarity for Employers into the Vaccine Conversation
It's time for employers to prepare for the widespread availability of the COVID-19 vaccine.
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ICO Sanctions Heralds Dawn of New Era for Data Breach Fines under GDPR
The UK data protection authority (the "ICO") has ruled that a UK hospital breached data regulations when it transferred 1.6 million patient records...
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GDPR is 4
25 May 2022 Marks the General Data Protection Regulation's 4-year Anniversary: Paving The Way For Europe's "Digital Decade"
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Europe’s Digital Future: European Commission launches new European Strategy for Data
The European Commission has launched a new European Strategy for Data to promote data-driven innovation in the EU through legislation, investment a...
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EU Commission’s Guidance on How to Combat COVID-19 Through Mobile Apps and Location Data While Maintaining GDPR and Data Protection Rights
The European Commission adopted a common EU toolbox for the use of mobile applications and geolocation data in the fight against COVID-19. The reco...
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Countdown to Post-Brexit Data Transfer Arrangements
With the post-Brexit data protection regime still unknown and less than 6 months to go before the UK leaves the EU, businesses need to deploy conti...
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A Path Forward – Draft Guidance Published For Dealing With International Data Transfers Post-Schrems II
This week saw the publication of draft guidance by the European Data Protection Board and draft standard contractual clauses by the European Commis...
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Explained: The Austrian data regulator’s issue with Google Analytics
Article in Silicon Republic: William Fry’s David Cullen and David Kirton look at the Austrian data watchdog’s Google Analytics concerns and what it...
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Health Research Rules Updated via New Regulations
The 2021 Health Research Regulations introduce significant new revisions to the law on processing personal data for health research purposes.
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EU Temporarily Permits Data Transfers to the UK Pending a Decision on Adequacy
As expected, an adequacy decision was not granted by the European Commission as part of the UK-EU Trade and Co-operation Agreement, but a maximum s...
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Schrems II: Court Orders the DPC to Pay Majority of Costs
The Data Protection Commission has been ordered to pay the majority of the costs in the litigation concerning the Schrems II decision. This follows...
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EU Member States Declare Support for a Next Generation European Cloud Service
The European Commission has welcomed the joint declaration by EU Member States, pledging to fund and develop cloud infrastructure in Europe and to ...
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Data Protection Commission Finds Prison Security System in Breach of GDPR
The Data Protection Commission has found a security system used in Irish prisons, which involves the scanning of thumbprints, to be in breach of th...
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Supreme Court Dismisses Facebook Appeal on Transfer of Personal Data
Supreme Court dismisses Facebook's appeal on the transfer of personal data.
