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Welcome to your monthly rundown of all things cyber, privacy, and technology, where we highlight all the happenings you may have missed. State Action: Virginia Governor Signs Bill Restricting Minor’s Use of Social...more
The Central Bank of Ireland’s (CBI) Regulatory and Supervisory Outlook 2025 outlines key risk topics which it deems to be most material from a supervisory perspective across the Banking and Payments Sector. Under section four...more
The seventh annual edition of DLA Piper’s GDPR Fines and Data Breach Survey has revealed another significant year in data privacy enforcement, with an aggregate total of EUR1.2 billion (USD1.26 billion/GBP996 million) in...more
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has released a comprehensive opinion addressing key data protection concerns related to the development and deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) models. The opinion, requested...more
ComplexDiscovery’s Editor’s Note: This recent €310 million fine imposed on LinkedIn by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) marks a powerful moment in GDPR enforcement, underlining the regulatory rigor facing global...more
Partners Niall Esler and Shane Martin, along with senior associate Conor Daly and trainee solicitor Coleen Wegmann, have authored the Ireland chapter for Global Legal Insights Fintech 2023. They provide an up-to-date summary...more
It shouldn’t come as a surprise that the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), through Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC), issued another fine against a large US technology company. What may come as a surprise is the...more
On 22 May 2023, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) issued Meta Platforms Ireland Limited (Meta Ireland) with a EUR 1.2 billion (approximately 1.3 billion U.S. dollar) fine for breaches of the GDPR with respect to...more
On January 19, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) announced the conclusion of an inquiry into the data processing practices of a U.S.-based messaging service’s Ireland operations and fined the messaging service €5.5...more
In this article, we look at the 2021 cyberattack on the Health Service Executive (“HSE”), the national healthcare provider for Ireland, and what lessons have been learned from that crisis one year post-incident....more
On 14 March 2022 the Data Protection Commission of Ireland (DPC) handed down a decision in respect of 22 personal data breach notifications made by the Bank of Ireland Group Plc (BOI) between November 2018 and June 2019. The...more
Today saw a key ruling by the Irish High Court which could have wide ranging implications in relation to a range of data use, targeted advertising and data transfers between Europe and the United States. The Irish data...more
Digital giants and other data-driven businesses that have moved their companies from the United Kingdom to Ireland in the wake of Brexit could soon be bracing for a new shake-up in light of legislation recently proposed in...more
The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) fined Twitter 450,000 euros (about US$546,000) for failing to timely notify the Irish DPC within the required 72 hours of discovering a Q4 2018 breach involving a bug in its Android...more
Following its Guidance issued on April 6, 2020, the Irish Data Protection Commission signaled its intent to begin enforcement against companies who fail to adhere to the Commission’s guidelines on the use and management of...more
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) recently issued a decision with global implications for data transfers from the EU in a case referred to the CJEU from the Irish Data Protection Commissioner, colloquially...more
EDPB and data protection authorities’ views and statements on the “Schrems II”- decision by the CJEU - On 16 July, 2020, the European Court of Justice (“CJEU“) passed a decision invalidating the EU-US Privacy Shield and...more
As discussed in an earlier alert, the Court of Justice of the European Union in a landmark decision in the Schrems II case invalidated the EU-US Privacy Shield framework, which was widely used by thousands of US organizations...more
The table below sets out the guidance provided by data protection authorities (DPA) in response to the European Court of Justice’s landmark judgment in Case C-311/18 Data Protection Commissioner v. Facebook Ireland and...more
The Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”), on July 16, 2020, invalidated the European Union-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework (“Privacy Shield”), which more than 5,300 U.S. organizations had relied on to lawfully...more
On July 16, 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), the supreme court of the European Union on matters involving European Union law, issued its long anticipated decision in the “Schrems II” case ( case...more
On July 16, 2020, Europe’s highest court, the Court of Justice of the European Union, struck down the Privacy Shield, an agreement that permitted companies operating in the European Union (EU) to transfer data to the United...more
On July 16, 2020, the European Court of Justice (Court) ruled in the “Schrems II” case that the one of the most commonly used cross border data transfer mechanisms between the European Union (EU) and the United States (US),...more
In a decision issued on July 16, 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) invalidated the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework, one of the primary tools used by companies in the European Union (EU) to transfer...more
El TJUE se pronuncia sobre la validez del Privacy Shield y las Cláusulas Contractuales Tipo (Responsable-Encargado). En su sentencia, el TJUE ha: (i) invalidado el Privacy Shield como mecanismo para transferir de forma segura...more