This video is a brief dramatised introduction to the eight principles of data protection. It is intended for use as part of a staff training and awareness programme, which will assist organisations in meeting their compliance ...

This is a report of an audit of the Department of Social and Family Affairs carried out by the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner in January of this year. The Department fully cooperated with the audit. The ...

From December 2018 to May 2019, the Data Protection Commission (‘DPC’) ran a public consultation on the processing of children’s personal data and the rights of children as data subjects under the General Data Protection ...

This is a report of an audit of Facebook-Ireland (FB-I) carried out by the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner of Ireland in the period October-December 2011. It builds on work carried out by other regulators, notably ...

European citizens have a fundamental right to privacy, it is important for organisations which process personal data to be cognisant of this right. When carried out effectively, anonymisation and pseudonymisation can be ...

This booklet is intended as an introductory guide to those persons/bodies who are data controllers, in that they control the contents and use of personal data. It outlines the eight fundamental rules of data protection and ...