Data Protection Commission Ireland

🗃 Case Study An individual lodged a complaint with the DPC after they had viewed a rental property. In their complaint, they alleged that the letting agency had requested excessive personal data during the application process. On this basis, they submitted a complaint to the DPC. Find out what happened 👇

🤝 The DPC were delighted to welcome Ms. Regina Becker of the Luxembourg National Data Service (LNDS) to our Dublin office last week for discussions with our Supervision team on the 1+ Million Genome Initiative - an EU initiative that aims to enable secure access to genomics and the corresponding clinical data across Europe to support groundbreaking research and health policy making and incentivising personalised healthcare treatments with the potential to improve disease prevention - as well as wider issues in relation to data protection in scientific research.

The DPC was delighted to exhibit at yesterday’s International AI Summit in the RDS, Dublin. The event provided a valuable opportunity to engage with people working in the AI field, to highlight our recently published AI Insights report and to emphasise that data protection enables responsible AI innovation.

📚 Case Study This complaint concerned an erasure request to a platform for booking accommodation. The complainant had begun creating an account but stopped before it was complete. In response to the erasure request, the data controller asked for an identity document in order to comply. 👉 https://lnkd.in/es9eD7Yg

The EDPB has today published a statement on the data protection challenges of smart glasses. Further details below 👇

📌 If you carry out processing activities with personal data partly or wholly by automated means, or if you otherwise deal with personal data which form (or are intended to form) part of a filing system, and you carry out these processing activities in the context of an establishment of your business within the EEA, you are subject to the GDPR regardless of whether the processing takes place in the EEA or not.

The DPC was delighted to visit San Francisco last week for a number of highly productive discussions and meetings. Commissioners Des Hogan and Dale Sunderland, along with Deputy Commissioner Graham Doyle, highlighted the DPC’s supervision of AI products and services, in the context of our recently published AI Insights report (link in the comments). The engagements also had a particular focus on the emerging challenges in data protection and AI. As part of the visit, the DPC met with the California Privacy Protection Agency, visited the Consulate General of Ireland, San Francisco, and met with our colleagues at the EU Office in San Francisco. Jennifer Urban, Sabrina Ross, Paul Lavery, Doug McMahon, Marianne Bolger, Lothar Determann

📬 Direct Marketing FAQs: Can my mobile phone be targeted for marketing phone calls?

Guidance on the use of drones 🔗 https://lnkd.in/g-uwk8hQ This guide has been developed for drone operators for purposes other than public law-related purposes and also to answer queries from the perspective of data subjects. Other drones aviation particulars such as security, safety and certification requirements remain outside the scope of these guidelines. Treoir ar Úsáid Drón 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dypFCgGg Tá na treoirlínte seo curtha i dtoll a chéile d’oibritheoirí dróin chun críocha eile seachas críocha bainteach le dlí poiblí agus chun ceisteanna a fhreagairt ó thaobh ábhair sonraí de. Tá sonraí eile maidir le heitlíocht drón amhail ceanglais slándála, sábháilteachta agus deimhniúcháin lasmuigh de réim na dtreoirlínte seo go fóill.

🏆 The DPC is delighted to be nominated for an award in the Dispute Resolution and Enforcement category at this year's Global Privacy Assembly awards as well as being in the running for the People’s Choice Award. You can view our submission video below and if you would like to support the DPC, share, like and comment on the GPA's post 👇 🏆 #GPAAwards2026 #PeoplesChoiceAward