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Ireland bolstered its powerful data regulator's ability to stop the sharing of information during its inquiries into global tech companies amid criticism from opposition parties, privacy activists ...
A number of news outlets, including Bleeping Computer, reported that a ransom demand of €16.5 million (about $20 million) was made, offering to decrypt data and to not publish "private data". [ 37 ] [ 38 ] [ 39 ] Initially, the Business Post reported that a ransom demand of three bitcoin or €124,000 (about $150,000) was made. [ 40 ]
Two new data protection commissioners are to be appointed to help tackle the “increased working burden and investigative complexity” faced by Ireland’s data watchdog.
Personal details of 533 million users, including 1.5 million in Ireland, were made publicly available in an unsecure database. Ireland’s online privacy watchdog to investigate Facebook over data ...
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Ireland officially marked one year since the first death of COVID-19 in the country was confirmed on 11 March 2020, the same day when COVID-19 was declared a pandemic. [ 200 ] A 16-year-old schoolboy was charged with raping a girl at a park in Dublin.
"The Data Protection Commission today announced that it has commenced a cross-border statutory inquiry into Google Ireland," the DPC said. The U.S. tech giant has its European headquarters in Dublin.
The complaints were filed in Ireland because all users who are not residents of the United States or Canada have a contract with "Facebook Ireland Ltd", located in Dublin, Ireland. Under European law Facebook Ireland is the "data controller" for facebook.com, and therefore, facebook.com is governed by European data protection laws. [131]