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

submitted 1 year ago by Lamhfada to c/ireland

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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.

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[–] Lamhfada 4 points 1 year 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.