Stop, DROP, and Roll – How California is delivering data protection rights the EU promised
Daniel Whooley Seven years in, and the average person's experience of European data protection is clicking "accept…
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Missing the Forest for the Trees: X v Russmedia and Inform Media Press (Case C-492/23)
Law is complicated. Privacy is complicated. But I feel like in the case of X…
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How to opt out of Meta (Facebook and Instagram) using Your Personal Data for AI Training
You’ve likely seen notifications or heard that Meta intends to use the public content shared…
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A New Government, a renewed concern: The Risk of Expanding Surveillance Technology
A recent post by Barry Scannall highlighted the unique powers Ireland has regarding the adoption…
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General Election 2024: My (realistic) Election Wishlist
EDIT: I would like to caveat this post by saying, as an environmentalist and progressive,…
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Back to Basics? Data Protection Commission fines LinkedIn For Article 5 and 6 Violations
Another day, another violation of GDPR by one of the big tech companies! This time…
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Is Profit a good enough of a reason to process personal data? The EUCJ thinks it is!
Case name: C-621/22 (Koninklijke Nederlandse Lawn Tennisbond v Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens) Read more here. A new…
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The Digital Markets Act and ‘Pay and Consent’
The Digital Markets Act is here, and it is getting some use! The European Commission…
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Facial Recognition Databases: Legal Hurdles and Privacy Predicaments
On a windy February morning, the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice was sitting within Leinster…
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European Court of Justice: Reviewing the right to erasure and storage limitation
With a new year comes a new European Court of Justice ruling on data protection…
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