Éire / Ireland

635 readers

4 users here now

An Irish community in the fediverse.

Weather & alerts: https://www.met.ie/

Health Service: https://www.hse.ie/

National Broadcasters: https://www.tg4.ie/en/ • https://www.rte.ie/

Radio Stations: https://irishradiolive.com/

Learn the language: https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/irish-language • https://community-courses.memrise.com/community/courses/english/ • https://www.duolingo.com/learn

Pollen levels: https://www.pollen.ie/

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Ireland makes questionable GDPR cases 'confidential' and criminalises sharing information (noyb.eu)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

2 comments fedilink hide all child comments

The coalition government this week passed a law which allows the Data Protection Commission to declare cases "confidential" and making it a criminal offence to share information about these cases.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Simon McGarr who does a lot of legal work around data, confidentiality and GDPR found out last year that An Post and the Ordinance Survey were collecting data on every household in Ireland through "Geodirectory", he had a mastodon thread about it here.