Regulators’ criticism is important in light of the upcoming two-year review of the GDPR, which the EC will carry out later in 2020.
EC approves €2.6bn public fund for the National Broadband Plan in Ireland
The EC cleared the state aid measures for the plan, which will set up a wholesale-only network to cover rural areas with broadband at speeds of at least 150Mbps.
Facebook under scrutiny from data protection authorities in three countries
The social network faces investigations in Canada and Ireland, while it hopes to settle a dispute with the FTC in the US for $3bn.
Irish Data Protection Commission releases first post-GDPR annual report
Europe and Ireland publish guidance on data transfers under no-deal Brexit
Both the European Data Protection Board and the Irish Data Protection Commission guide companies in the steps to take.
Irish regulator questioning Facebook’s intended integration of WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram
The company started work to link the messaging functions of the three apps, and regulators are not happy.
Irish Data Protection Commissioner runs inquiry on Facebook’s latest data breach
ComReg updates regulation of wholesale broadband markets and retail bundles
The Irish regulator has published three decisions stemming from the review of the wholesale broadband access markets – Wholesale Local Access (WLA) and Wholesale Central Access (WCA)
Irish DPA officially opens investigation into Facebook’s data breach
The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has started an investigation on Facebook, following the data breach suffered by the Company the previous week, related to about 50 million accounts
