Irish regulator investigates Shein over data transfers to ChinaIreland's Data Protection Commission is investigating Shein. The probe focuses on how the Chinese online retailer transfers European user d...
05 May, 2026, 08.21 PM IST
Ireland fines Meta $263 million over Facebook hacksMeta, Facebook's parent company, has been fined €251 million by Irish regulators for a 2018 data breach affecting 29 million users globally...
17 Dec, 2024, 08.42 PM IST
Centre-right parties set to hold power in IrelandThe centre-right parties Fianna Fail and Fine Gael are expected to retain power in Ireland following the general election. With about 45 of...
01 Dec, 2024, 05.24 PM IST
Ireland fines Meta €91 million over EU data breachAn Irish regulator helping to police European Union data privacy said Friday it had fined Facebook-owner Meta 91 million euros ($102 millio...
28 Sep, 2024, 06.36 PM IST
Big hit for big tech: Apple, Google suffer multibillion-$ blows in EUEU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager achieved significant victories as Europe's top court upheld her actions against Apple's Irish tax dea...
10 Sep, 2024, 10.26 PM IST
EU's Vestager triumphs in crackdown on Apple's tax deal, Google's practicesVestager, who ends her term in November, has made a name for herself going after Big Tech's tax arrangements with some EU countries and att...
10 Sep, 2024, 04.35 PM IST
Simon Harris becomes Irish PM-in-waitingSimon Harris, known for COVID-19 response, elected as Ireland's next PM. To set priorities at Fine Gael event in Athlone. Will become young...
24 Mar, 2024, 10.18 PM IST
Meta's WhatsApp fined $5.95 million by lead EU privacy regulatorThe DPC, which acts as the EU's lead privacy regulator for Meta, said WhatsApp must reassess how it uses personal data for service improvem...
19 Jan, 2023, 06.59 PM IST
Leo Varadkar becomes Ireland’s new prime minister as Micheál Martin steps downIn line with the coalition agreement made in June 2020, Leo Varadkar is all set to take over as Ireland's new taoiseach (Prime Minister), r...
17 Dec, 2022, 08.55 PM IST
France imposes fines on Facebook Ireland and Google"The CNIL has found that the facebook.com, google.fr and youtube.com websites do not allow to refuse cookies as easily as it is to accept t...
07 Jan, 2022, 08.40 AM IST
Irish data privacy watchdog fines WhatsApp $266 millionIreland's Data Privacy Commissioner (DPC), which is the lead data privacy regulator for Facebook within the European Union, said the issues...
02 Sep, 2021, 04.48 PM IST
Ireland fines WhatsApp 225 million euros for breaching EU privacy lawsIreland was asked to "reassess and increase its proposed fine on the basis of a number of factors ... and following this reassessment the D...
02 Sep, 2021, 04.34 PM IST
Indian origin gay leader Leo Varadkar will be Ireland's new PMVaradkar overcame ministerial colleague Simon Coveney as expected, winning an overwhelming majority of support among the centre-right party...
03 Jun, 2017, 12.32 AM IST
- Soccer-British FAs fined over international poppy displays
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19 Dec, 2016, 11.44 PM IST
- UPDATE 2-Soccer-British FAs fined over international poppy displays
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19 Dec, 2016, 11.04 PM IST
- Soccer-British FAs fined over poppy displays during internationals
SOCCER-FIFA-FINES:Soccer-British FAs fined over poppy displays during internationals
19 Dec, 2016, 06.04 PM IST
Apple's $14.5 billion EU tax ruling: What you need to knowEU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager said in an e-mailed statement that member states of the EU cannot give tax benefits to selec...
30 Aug, 2016, 08.43 PM IST