Update: Irish Data Protection Commission Passes GDPR ‘Gag’ Law

In June we reported about the Irish Government’s ‘last minute’ amendment to the Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022, which was seen by some as an effort to ‘muzzle’ critics of the Data Protection Commission (“DPC”). The Bill was debated and the...

Google’s AI chatbot launched in the EU

Bard, the artificial intelligence chatbot of Google, is rolling out in the European Union (“EU”) after resolving privacy concerns raised by the bloc’s key privacy regulator, the Irish Data Protection Commission (“DPC”). In June, Google delayed the release of Bard...

The USA is adequate again: what we know so far

Yesterday, 10 July 2023, the European Commission (“the Commission”) adopted the adequacy decision for the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (“the Framework”). The result thereof is that the United States (“US”) is now regarded as an adequate country that ensures an...

EU-US Data Privacy Framework awaiting adequacy decision

A lawyer for Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner (“DPC”) has said that the European Commission (“the Commission”) is due to finalize a new data transfer pact with the United States (“US”) by mid-July. On the 3rd of July, the US Secretary of Commerce issued a...

Critics of the Data Protection Commission possibly “muzzled”

Yesterday, 26 June 2023, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (“ICCL”) reported that the Irish Government’s “last minute” amendment to the Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022 is an effort to “muzzle’’ critics of the Data Protection Commission...