Alan Mac Kenna

Curated privacy news, insights & resources, with a focus on Irish and EU developments. PRIVACY Schrems’ privacy group challenges Ryanair’s use of facial recognition Digital rights group NOYB on Thursday filed a complaint against Ryanair, alleging that it is violating customers’ rights to data protection by using facial recognition

Curated privacy news, insights & resources, with a focus on Irish and EU developments. PRIVACY WhatsApp shifts legal basis for processing personal data in Europe WhatsApp updated its privacy policy on Monday (17 July) by switching to the ‘legitimate interest’ legal basis following an Irish Data Protection Commissioner’s sanction

Curated privacy news, insights & resources, with a focus on Irish and EU developments. PRIVACY EU seals new US data transfer pact but challenge ahead The European Commission announced a new data transfer pact with the United States today, seeking to end the legal uncertainty plaguing thousands of companies which

Curated privacy news, insights & resources, with a focus on Irish and EU developments. PRIVACY Facebook-owner Meta loses as EU court ruling may boost powers over data breaches The ruling followed a challenge by Meta after the German cartel office in 2019 ordered the social media giant to stop collecting

Curated privacy news, insights & resources, with a focus on Irish and EU developments. PRIVACY New Irish law might make data protection procedures confidential The Irish government added a last-minute amendment to a bill allowing the Irish Data Protection Commission to label all their procedures as confidential. 🔗 RELATED: * ‘Last-minute’ amendment

Curated privacy news, insights & resources, with a focus on Irish and EU developments. PRIVACY Digital rights group wants court to direct DPC to fully investigate claims against Meta A European digital rights advocacy group wants the High Court to direct Ireland’s data protection watchdog to fully investigate its