The head of the department with primary responsibility for the Public Services Card project has agreed that it would have been “preferable” if a full business case had been prepared for it at its inception.
Mon, 04 Nov, 2019
The Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Regina Doherty, faced calls for her resignation last night as the fallout from the Data Protection Commissioner’s investigation into the Public Services Card continued.
Sat, 17 Aug, 2019
A scam in which hospital patients received letters advising them they had won money in a lottery has been reported to An Garda Síochána.
Thu, 04 Jul, 2019
The data protection watchdog is seeking an “urgent” briefing from Facebook in light of the social media company’s announcement that it plans to merge parts of WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger.
Tue, 29 Jan, 2019
The President Michael D Higgins has signed the Data Protection Bill 2018 into law.
Thu, 24 May, 2018
The Data Protection Commissioner is likely to start the investigation into the alleged data breach at Independent News and Media within the coming weeks, as she dismissed any potential conflict of interest in attending an event organised by the company yesterday.
Tue, 10 Apr, 2018
Political parties, charities and sporting organisations are scrambling to become compliant with the most comprehensive data protection legislation ever introduced by the EU, data security experts have warned.
Mon, 01 Jan, 2018
The EU’s top court will issue a ruling today which could have major implications for all exam bodies and the rights of candidates to examine their own test papers.
Wed, 20 Dec, 2017
The country’s largest supermarket group has reassured customers after it was targetted in a cybercrime attack aimed at extracting credit and debit card details.
Wed, 11 Oct, 2017
Users of the online learning portal on the Irish National Teachers Organisation (INTO) website have been warned of a data breach.
Tue, 19 Sep, 2017
The Cork Education and Training Board (ETB) has apologised for a data security breach which affected a handful of staff.
Sat, 16 Sep, 2017
The material was lost by an employee while moving between branches of AIB in the city for a meeting.
Tue, 12 Sep, 2017
At least €800,000 in benefits has been withheld from welfare recipients who failed to sign up for a public services card after they were told to by the Department of Social Protection.
Sat, 26 Aug, 2017
Tusla chief executive Fred McBride has said measures have been taken to ensure there can be no repeat of the issues in the Maurice McCabe case.
Thu, 23 Feb, 2017
A legal row over data protection has erupted between the Rape Crisis Network of Ireland (RCNI) and a State agency over its right to publish information gathered from abuse victims.
Sun, 30 Oct, 2016
Tue, 27 Sep, 2016
Mon, 29 Feb, 2016
Sat, 27 Feb, 2016
A register collating all significant loans by banks to individuals is on course to be up and running by the end of 2017, as the Central Bank works to address privacy concerns.
Fri, 12 Feb, 2016
Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection Joan Burton confirmed 25 data breaches had been identified in her department following investigations over the past five years.
Fri, 11 Dec, 2015
A DNA database — promised more than eight years ago —will be up and running in the coming weeks, Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald has said.
Wed, 14 Oct, 2015
The HSE says an investigation is continuing after confidential patient files were found on a footpath.
Wed, 30 Sep, 2015
The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner has said it has contacted its counterpart in Canada over the Ashley Madison data dump, amid claims that as many as 110,000 Irish email addresses may have been included in the data breach.
Sat, 22 Aug, 2015
The HSE has confirmed that a number of people were able to see one person's application for GP care for under 6's because of a website glitch last night.
Tue, 16 Jun, 2015
The controversial new postcode system will not be introduced until "satisfactory solutions" are put in place to address "serious concerns", the Data Protection Commissioner has confirmed.
Mon, 10 Nov, 2014
Irish Water last night denied there had been any data protection breach as a result of a "scripting error" which saw it issue 6,329 letters to property owners with the right address but the wrong name printed on them.
Thu, 11 Sep, 2014
A possible breach of data protection is being investigated at Irish Water after it is claimed the company used incorrect names on letters sent to over 6,000 customers.
Wed, 10 Sep, 2014
The body tasked with regulating private investigators has no target date for introducing regulations despite being set up 10 years ago.
Sat, 06 Sep, 2014
The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner is investigating claims that the Department of Social Protection gave personal information to private investigators who claimed to be State officials.
Sat, 16 Aug, 2014
The Data Protection Commissioner has said it is disappointed that a data breach at Paddy Power that affected 120,000 Irish customers was not reported to its office sooner.
Thu, 31 Jul, 2014
The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner is in discussions with an Irish Genealogy website which left personal data open to identity thieves.
Mon, 21 Jul, 2014
Google has been deluged with requests by people wanting their names removed from its search engine under their ‘right to be forgotten’.
Thu, 05 Jun, 2014
Fianna Fáil European candidate for Dublin Mary Fitzpatrick is facing complaints from the Data Protection Commissioner after voters received pre-recorded ‘robocalls’ from her on the eve of voting.
Sat, 24 May, 2014
Eircom restored its email service to 350,000 customers in a “controlled and phased” manner yesterday after a lockdown earlier this week to prevent a security threat.
Thu, 01 May, 2014
By any estimation, a demanding seven months ahead for Mr Justice Nial Fennelly.
Wed, 09 Apr, 2014
Information on Garda station recordings came to light in 2011. How the practice was dealt with by the various arms of the State is now the issue, writes Cormac O’Keeffe
Thu, 27 Mar, 2014
The Garda Ombudsman said a report they published in June 2013 — detailing the recording of phone conversations at a Garda station — was a “high-profile case” which had attracted “considerable public awareness”.
The two garda whistle-blowers had “no basis” for continuing to trawl Garda computer data and disclosing it outside the force once they had reported their allegations of malpractice, the State’s data watchdog has said.
Sat, 22 Mar, 2014
Four telephone companies were hit with monetary penalties yesterday for making unsolicited marketing calls and sending spam emails and text messages to customers.
Tue, 03 Dec, 2013
The American owners of Clare-based Loyaltybuild Ltd last month agreed to pay a $30m (€22.3m) settlement for data protection breaches across the Atlantic.
Thu, 14 Nov, 2013
Electricity customers have become the latest to fall prey to the data protection debacle at Loyaltybuild as gardaí yesterday announced a fraud squad probe into breaches at the company.
The Road Safety Authority and the Data Protection Commissioner have begun investigations into how private correspondence from motorists could be viewed by other applicants on the National Driver Licence Service (NDLS) website.
Wed, 13 Nov, 2013
Schools and students face disruption from tomorrow as industrial action by the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland (ASTI) commences.
Tue, 01 Oct, 2013
The pro-life group Youth Defence has contacted gardaí after its website became the target of hackers who claimed the charity is effectively a US-funded group focused on preventing abortion in Ireland.
Wed, 10 Jul, 2013
One of Ireland's largest pizza take-out chains has been spared a criminal conviction for sending unsolicited spam emails.
Mon, 08 Jul, 2013
The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner has confirmed it will begin examining allegations that data from Irish Facebook users has been passed on to the US National Security Agency (NSA).
Thu, 27 Jun, 2013
Certain gardaí have been accessing the garda PULSE system inappropriately to look at information on celebrities, according to the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner.
Mon, 20 May, 2013
The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) is to ask the Government to bring in legislation to facilitate the establishment of a register of the financial interests of TV and radio presenters.
Wed, 10 Apr, 2013
The Department of Justice has defended the growing number of cases of gardaí accessing emails and said existing laws allowed for the practice.
Sat, 23 Mar, 2013
The former operators of the State’s National Procurement Service website e-tenders has had to apologise after it used the NPS database to email clients while criticising the new version of the website.
Mon, 26 Nov, 2012
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