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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.
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 ...
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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 ]
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 ...
Figures revealed by the Our World in Data organisation showed that Ireland had the highest daily number of new confirmed COVID-19 cases in the world for every million people. [ 25 ] Gardaí (police) received new COVID-19 enforcement powers, including the power to fine people €100 in breach in the 5 km travel limit.
"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.
12 December – Ireland saw its coldest day in 12 years since 2010 across Met Éireann's network of 25 synoptic. [ 263 ] 15 December – Tributes were paid after 24-year-old Irish soldier Seán Rooney serving with the UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon was killed and a second Irish soldier 22-year-old Shane Kearney was seriously injured in an ...