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• @johnnyryan Johnny Ryan on x

  New report: Ireland is the bottleneck of GDPR enforcement against Google, Facebook, and Big Tech for all of Europe. European Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders must intervene @Dreynders @EU_Justice. #PeopleVsBigTech https://www.iccl.ie/...

• @martinjemoore Martin Moore on x

  Bad news for Ireland's privacy regulator, and speaks to inherent tensions of EU-wide regulations policed by devolved natl regulators & leveraged by transnational tech giants https://www.ft.com/...

• @jason_kint Jason Kint on x

  Ireland owns the damage this failure to enforce has had on the publishing industry, consumer trust and the shaping of privacy law as the surveillance lobby has weaponized the current situation to support weak data regimes rather than strong privacy laws...because Facebook, Google…

• @johnnyryan Johnny Ryan on x

  Enforcement against Google, Facebook, and other Big Tech is paralysed by Ireland: in 3 years since GDPR (May 2018-May 2021) Ireland sent only 4 draft decisions for the EDPB. 98% (160) remain unresolved. #PeopleVsBigTech https://www.iccl.ie/... https://twitter.com/...

• @johnnyryan Johnny Ryan on x

  Germany alone accounts for almost a third (32%) of all spending on EU DPAs that oversee the private sector. More than half of all national DPAs have small (€5 million or less) annual budgets. (From page 9 of the report https://www.iccl.ie/...) https://twitter.com/...

• @johnnyryan Johnny Ryan on x

  Though Covid-19 has forced many Europeans to work online, GDPR enforcers remain ill equipped to supervise the tech sector. Only 9.7% of EU GDPR enforcers' 3,014 full time staff are tech specialists. (From page 10 of the report https://iccl.ie/...) https://twitter.com/...

• @johnnyryan Johnny Ryan on x

  We also examine final GDPR decisions (in “cross-border” cases of Europe-wide significance). Less than half (44%) of EDPB final EU-wide decisions include corrective measures, such has fines or orders to stop processing. (See pages 7-8 of full report —> https://www.iccl.ie/...) htt…

• @johnnyryan Johnny Ryan on x

  We accompany our report today with a letter to European Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders @Dreynders, urging him to launch an infringement procedure under Article 258 TEFU against Member States that jeopardise protection of personal data. https://www.iccl.ie/... https://twitte…

• @priapusiq PiQ on x

  🇮🇪 Ireland is failing to apply the EU's privacy laws to US Big Tech companies, with 98 per cent of 164 significant complaints about privacy abuses still unresolved by its regulator. https://www.ft.com/...

• @financialtimes @financialtimes on x

  Ireland is failing to apply the EU's privacy laws to US Big Tech companies, according to campaigners, with Spain producing 10 times more draft decisions despite having a smaller budget https://www.ft.com/... https://twitter.com/...