The Irish Data Protection Commission handled 10,151 cases last year, up 9% in 2019. It received 4,660 GDPR complaints from individuals in 2020, concluding 4,476 (1,660 were received before 2020). The report also highlights a trend to "misuse the GDPR to obfuscate or pursue other agendas".
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