EU opens new probe into TikTok data transfer to ChinaAn Irish regulator has initiated an investigation into TikTok regarding the transfer of European users' personal data to servers located in...
10 Jul, 2025, 06.14 PM IST
Irish regulator investigates X over use of EU personal data to train Grok AIU.S. President Donald Trump and other members of his administration have criticised EU regulation of U.S. companies and described fines imp...
11 Apr, 2025, 09.03 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
Facebook owner hit with 251 million euros in fines for 2018 data breachThe hack exploited three distinct bugs in Facebook's "View As" feature, which allowed users to see how their profiles appeared to others. T...
17 Dec, 2024, 06.37 PM IST
Ireland fines LinkedIn 310 million euros over EU data breachAn Irish regulator helping to police European Union data privacy said Thursday it had fined professional networking platform LinkedIn 310 m...
24 Oct, 2024, 05.03 PM IST
X hit with Austrian data use complaint over AI trainingThe group led by privacy activist Max Schrems announced that it had filed General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) complaints with authori...
12 Aug, 2024, 08.27 PM IST
X agrees to not use some EU user data to train AI chatbotElon Musk-owned X has said it allows all users to decide if their public posts can be used by the platform's artificial intelligence chatbo...
09 Aug, 2024, 09.44 AM IST
Meta will not launch Meta AI in Europe for nowMeta Platforms postpones Meta AI launch in Europe due to Irish privacy regulator's request on user data from Facebook and Instagram.
15 Jun, 2024, 09.10 AM IST
Top EU data regulator says tech giants working closely on AI complianceDes Hogan, Data Protection Commissioner in Ireland, highlighted the broad powers of national regulators to enforce changes in AI products f...
29 May, 2024, 09.14 AM IST
EU Commission revamps procedures to speed up Big Tech privacy probesStung by criticism of tardy privacy investigations and the Irish privacy regulator's outsized role in overseeing Big Tech, the European Com...
05 Jul, 2023, 08.03 AM IST
Microsoft flags over $400 million charge for Irish privacy violation fine on LinkedInThe Irish Data Protection Commission (IDPC) launched an investigation into the professional networking platform in 2018 over whether its ta...
01 Jun, 2023, 11.08 PM IST
EU fines Meta $1.3 billion over data transfers to USThe social network giant’s continued data transfers to the US didn’t address “the risks to the fundamental rights and freedoms” of people w...
22 May, 2023, 03.45 PM IST
Irish privacy regulator fines Meta more than $400 millionIreland's data privacy regulator fined Meta 390 million euros ($414 million) on Wednesday for breaches at its Facebook and Instagram servic...
04 Jan, 2023, 09.29 PM IST
Meta cannot run ads based on personal data, rules EU privacy watchdog: sourceThe Irish data protection agency, which oversees Meta because its European headquarters is located in Dublin, has been given a month to iss...
07 Dec, 2022, 08.25 AM IST
Irish watchdog fines Instagram 405 million euros in teen data caseIreland's Data Protection Commission said by email Monday that it made a final decision last week to fine the company 405 million euros ($4...
05 Sep, 2022, 10.06 PM 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
EU court backs national data watchdog powers in blow to Facebook, Big TechThe EU Court of Justice (CJEU) ruling could encourage national agencies to act against U.S. tech companies such as Google, Twitter and Appl...
15 Jun, 2021, 02.58 PM IST