Irelands DPC is in need of urgent reform

04/10/2021 | The Irish Times

An article in the Irish Times is calling for reform of Ireland's Data Protection Commission due to its failure to enforce the GDPR adequately. "Ireland is the bottleneck of GDPR enforcement against Google, Facebook and big tech for all of Europe." Quoting the Irish Council for Civil Liberties, the article highlights how the DPC has received 164 cross border disputes under the GDPR and as yet has only resolved four of them.  

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