Alan Mac Kenna

Curated privacy, security & tech news, insights & resources with a focus on Irish and EU developments. PRIVACY EDPB: Application of the GDPR successful, but sufficient resources are necessary to tackle the challenges of the future During its latest plenary, the EDPB adopted its contribution to the European Commission’s

Curated privacy, security & tech news, insights & resources with a focus on Irish and EU developments. PRIVACY European Union squares the circle on the world’s first AI rulebook The AI Act is a landmark bill to regulate Artificial Intelligence based on its capacity to cause harm. The file

Curated privacy, security & tech news, insights & resources with a focus on Irish and EU developments. PRIVACY EU data protection authorities ban Meta from personal data usage in behavioural advertising The European Data Protection Board has announced its binding decision about banning Meta’s platforms from processing personal data

Curated privacy, security & tech news, insights & resources with a focus on Irish and EU developments. PRIVACY Consumer groups file complaint against Meta’s ‘pay-or-consent’ model The European Consumer Organisation (BEUC) and 18 of its members has filed a complaint to the European Commission against Meta’s “unfair pay-or-consent”

Curated privacy, security & tech news, insights & resources with a focus on Irish and EU developments. PRIVACY Meta secures temporary pause to effects of DPC’s data processing ban The Irish arm of technology giant Meta has brought a High Court challenge against a proposed immediate ban against its

Curated privacy, security & tech news, insights & resources with a focus on Irish and EU developments. PRIVACY Irish Data-protection commissioner Helen Dixon to leave role Helen Dixon has confirmed that she will leave her role as the State’s data-protection commissioner in early 2024 after a decade in the