Alan Mac Kenna

Curated privacy news, insights & resources, with a focus on Irish and EU developments. PRIVACY EU squeezes Meta on personal data use for targeting ads The European Data Protection Board HAS adopted a binding decision that will ban Facebook and Instagram owner Meta from using the personal data of users

Curated privacy, security & tech news, insights & resources with a focus on Irish and EU developments. PRIVACY Thousands of drivers have sensitive data exposed to hackers in major IT breach The driving licences of thousands of motorists who had vehicles towed on behalf of the Irish police were left

Curated privacy news, insights & resources, with a focus on Irish and EU developments. PRIVACY DPC inquiry into Irish Central Bank data breach compounds regulator’s embarrassment The Central Bank, which has happily doled out more than €400 million of fines to financial institutions and individuals in the past 17

Curated privacy news, insights & resources, with a focus on Irish and EU developments. PRIVACY Dixon’s dilemma: Irish data watchdog faces big call over Meta’s subscription plan Eyebrows were raised around the world last week when it emerged that Meta was planning to start charging Europeans a monthly

Curated privacy news, insights & resources, with a focus on Irish and EU developments. PRIVACY TikTok challenges €345m fine for failing to protect children’s privacy TikTok has launched a High Court challenge aimed at quashing the Data Protection Commission's decision to fine it €345m for failing to

Curated privacy news, insights & resources, with a focus on Irish and EU developments. PRIVACY 'The Department got caught out': The story of the dossier scandal When a whistleblower went public more than two years ago to reveal controversial information gathering techniques within the Department of Health – one