Majority of 6,624 GDPR complaints deemed valid

More than 5,800 of the 6,200 complaints received by the Data Protection Commission (DPC) since the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in May of last year have been deemed valid.

On the first anniversary of the introduction of the legislation, the office of the DPC said GDPR has given rise to a significant increase in the number of people contacting the office with complaints.