ICCL has launched a formal complaint against the European Commission before the European Ombudsman. The Commission has failed to monitor the application of the GDPR, and to intervene against Ireland’s failure to properly apply the law.
Sustainability without surveillance
New report: Tracking-based online advertising imperils fundamental rights and publisher sustainability by diverting data and revenue from publishers.
Call for Government to invest 0.01% of Budget in Human Rights
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE/ Call for Government to invest 0.01% of Budget in Human Rights 7 October 2021 As the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) launches our first ever pre-budget submission, we are calling on the government to ring-fence …
Europe’s Wild West: damning new stats on Big Tech in Ireland
ICCL report exposes a data free-for-all for companies like Google and Facebook 13 September 2021 Europe is unable to police how big tech firms use people’s data, and Ireland is Europe’s Wild West when it comes to data protection. That’s …
Europe’s enforcement paralysis: ICCL’s 2021 GDPR report
New insights in to GDPR enforcers across the EU reveal that Europe is unable to police how big tech firms use people’s data.
Our thoughts on what the DPC should do over the next 5 years
The Irish Data Protection Commission has a plan for the next five years. Here are our thoughts. The Data Protection Commission of Ireland has invited interested parties to comment on its draft regulatory strategy for the next five years. ICCL’s response …
Responding to Data Protection Commissioner’s remarks at the Justice Committee Hearing
ICCL testified at the parliamentary Justice Committee about problems at the Data Protection Commission. This note responds to the Data Protection Commissioner’s remarks at that hearing.See video of the full hearing17 May 2021 On 27 April ICCL testified at the …
Justice Committee to hear of danger of electoral manipulation if DPC does not act
27 April 2021 (updated with video on 17 May 2021) The Oireachtas Justice Committee will tonight hear that the Data Protection Commission (DPC) has failed to enforce the GDPR, creating an acute risk for democracy. The Irish Council for Civil Liberties’ …
New US Senate Bill may stop Ireland processing US data, unless Ireland acts on GDPR enforcement
Ireland’s digital sector threatened by a proposed requirement that data protection law must be properly enforced. This afternoon United States Senator Ron Wyden has proposed a new Bill to impose export controls on personal data about people in the US to …
Economic & Reputational Risk of the DPC’s Failure to Uphold EU Data Rights
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE/ Data Protection Commission puts rights of 448 million people at risk, will make Ireland irrelevant as global tech hub, hears Oireachtas Committee 9 April 2021 In nearly 3 years since the GDPR, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) …