799 data breaches notified by Government departments in 2019

Department of Social Protection was responsible for nearly half the breaches notified. File Picture.

The Department of Social Protection was responsible for nearly half the data protection breaches notified by Government departments across the whole of last year.

However, the department, currently headed up by Fine Gael's Heather Humphreys, declined to outline how many of these breaches were brought before the Data Protection Commission (DPC), the only government department to do so.